Re: We Were Soldiers

Phillip Atcliffe wrote:

>On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 15:49:01 +0000 Roger Burton West
><roger@firedrake.org> wrote:
>
> > It is certainly the case that many people in the UK dislike any sort
>of formal friendship with or support for the Japanese, because of the
>actions of the Japanese forces in the Second World War. Mostly it's
>not people who were there, any more; it's their children, who had to
>live with the aftermath... <
>
>Same in Australia, although confined more to the wartime generation, I
>think. My mother -- sister of two men who fought the Japanese and wife
>of another -- disliked and distrusted them years after WW2 ended; she'd
>seen and heard of too many horrors from prison camps, etc., and she was
>not inclined to anything more conciliatory than a live-and-let-live
>attitude, but always remembering to "keep your powder dry."

My grandfather was a USN landing craft pilot/shipfitter in the pacific
in 
WWII.  For years he wouldn't even buy Japanese manufactured goods.  But
even 
he's mellowed over the years.

3B^2

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