Readers React: If the Japanese want an apology for Hiroshima and Nagasaki, they should ask their own government
To the editor: America has nothing for which to apologize to the Japanese. Every death is lamentable. Death amid war is unavoidable. (“As Obama tours Hiroshima, bombing survivors in Little Tokyo hope for ‘more than words,’” May 22)
And while the citizens of Nagasaki and Hiroshima suffered and died horrible deaths, the same could be said for millions of others across Europe and Asia during World War II.
If the atomic bomb survivors want an apology, they should look to their own government for it. You don’t blame a guy for ending a fight. Blame for the fight, and the damage it causes, belongs to those who started it.
Rather than offend thousands of World War II veterans and their families and further diminishing the United States in the eyes of our enemies, President Obama would better use his trip to Asia to remind China of the dangers of extraterritorial adventures.
Jim Fischer, Torrance
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