Posted by
Jan@Oasis on Monday, February 14, 2011 9:40:21 PM
Okay, so for all of you weeping, bleeding heart loonies who want to gnash your teeth and tear your garments/hair over our treatment of Japan during WW II, have I got a book for you! Go out and buy Laura Hillenbrand's "Unbroken." It is riveting, and more important, it demonstrates with crystal clarity why: Number 1--we put Japanese people living here in camps rather than take a chance on their sabotaging our war effort against their native country, and Number 2--why we dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Now I know this is going to be painful for you to read, because you so want to believe that America is a BAAAAAAD country, a war-mongering, slobbering bunch of violence-prone Neanderthals. Well, that's just tough. If you read this book and still can't admit that we did as many things right as were humanly possible, and that there were justifiable concerns about how loyal the Japanese living here might be, then there is truly no hope for you in terms of being able to see the truth. And be set free by it. From your leftist, lock-step dogma. Which, come to think of it, generally renders you incapable of recognizing the truth if it comes up and bites you on the.....
Regardless of one's political or historical leanings and biases, may I humbly recommend this book for its beautifully written history of one man in particular but many others as well, all American servicemen who paid a tremendous price but who would have paid the ultimate price had we not dropped Little Man and Big Boy when and where we did. As for the loyalty--or lack thereof--of Japanese living in the United States at the time, I offer you Jimmy Sasaki, and you can draw your own conclusions after reading the book. It is well worth taking a chance on having to re-think your leftie biases against your own country and having to acknowledge the superior and excellent nature of the vast majority of our military personnel, then and now. I know it's painful, but perhaps you will learn something you never wanted to learn. Call me the Eternal Optimist. Or call me crazy. Thank you Laura Hillenbrand, for an amazing and exciting book that I shall remember for as long as I remember anything!