Pearl Harbor Day

[Amnorix]

Originally Posted by splatbass

Not cool. The Japanese have been our allies for decades. The survivors of Pearl Harbor have gotten together with the Japanese survivors from that day several times in the past. If they can forgive so can you.

The Japanese paid for Pearl Harbor many times over. Hiroshima and Nagasaki are only the best known of it, at this point. Operationg Meetinghouse, March, 1945 is the most destructive air raid in history, resulting in a firestorm (estimated at 1,800 degrees F in some places) that destroyed 25% of Tokyo, one of the largest cities on earth, with an estimated 100,000 dead and over 250,000 buildings destroyed.

They ****ed us, and they got their ass beat. For 50 years they've been one of our staunchest allies. Pearl Harbor should be commemorated for the lives lost, and the war begun, but not to revisit ancient wrongs long ago repaid with heavy interest.