‘Japan: the Good in the Bad Past’
The “whitewash” that the Education Ministry of Japan gave to the brutalities and atrocities committed by Japan before and during World War II is an affront to every American serviceman who fought against this aggression.
It is also a desecration to the memory of the Americans murdered on the Bataan Death March, to those Americans who were murdered and starved to death in Japanese prisons, and to those Americans who gave their lives in the Pacific.
One thing these Japanese historians fail to remember is that were it not for Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s stand against Russia, which wanted to carve out part of Japan for Russian domination, the people of Japan would be Russian slaves today.
SAM A. MOORE
Ventura
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