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I believe it was a cemetary, not a concentration camp. And Reagan took a great deal of flap for the visit.
I think the term is "flak". And so what? Reagan was the "Teflon President". He could do anything, and his supporters thought he was wonderful, regardless.
Have any of you ever visited Hiroshima and the museum there?
It's quite haunting and it's an established Peace Park.
Do you know what it looks like to have skin burned off from an atomic warhead? or to see a city decimated in seconds?
Have any of you ever visited Hiroshima and the museum there?
It's quite haunting and it's an established Peace Park.
Do you know what it looks like to have skin burned off from an atomic warhead? or to see a city decimated in seconds?
I think the term is "flak". And so what? Reagan was the "Teflon President". He could do anything, and his supporters thought he was wonderful, regardless.
Have any of you ever visited Hiroshima and the museum there?
It's quite haunting and it's an established Peace Park.
Do you know what it looks like to have skin burned off from an atomic warhead? or to see a city decimated in seconds?
So boatloads of Japanese Officials and the Emperor of Japan have respectfully visited U.S. military cemeteries for decades in honor of fallen American servicemen, they have laid wreaths and acknowledge the cost of wars on the nations of the world and in particular our war with one another.
Pres Obama is going to Japan to further this nation's agenda of reducing nuclear weapons and acknowledging the cost of war that all people suffer with,and what do some Americans do??.
They show their in-ability to see that war irregardless of who started it has never really permanently resolved anything and the use of nuclear weapons is a guaranteed way to destroy this planet irregardless of who started what. The fail to acknowledge that a Japanese mother's heart ached as much as an American's heart when news of a KIA husband or son made it way to their doorstep. That many of the Japanese were pressed into service an had no heart for war or animus to wards the U.S., the same as many Viet-Nam soldiers could care less about fighting in the far East. We as Americans are so gloated with arrogance and pride that we can not be seen as people who seek peace before we seek war.
This president has enough pride in this country to say enough is enough, we fought a war with one another and it's ended, yet we acknowledge the heartache and lost felt by all of those involved, Americans and Japanese alike.
I know it flies in the face of the American cowboy kicking everybody's ass, but so what it's time this country matured just a little bit.
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