"HIROSHIMA MEMORIALS:" ELITE SCHOOLS TEACH US TO HATE OURSELVES

We're supposed to feel some kind of guilt for killing people who actually ate our prisoners alive, raped the women of Nanking for eighty straight days, and performed acts of barbarity in Asia not seen since the days of Genghis Kahn. They don't teach about things like this at the "right" places; Harvard, Stanford, or even high schools anymore. They teach that we, the ones who were eaten alive, are the bad guys.

While our Left and the Japanese population demonstrate against our use of the A-Bomb on both Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end the war in 1945, attacks which killed around 200,000 people, let’s look at what we did to win the war. Had we had to invade Japan and fight, we would have lost a million young men and the Japanese would have lost twenty million if the prior statistics held.

Japanese war crimes fill volumes. It is estimated that they slaughtered 350,000 in Nanking.

They did it the old fashioned way, one at a time. They tossed babies into the air and let them land on fixed bayonets; marched people into the river and used them for targets; gathered small crowds together doused them with gasoline and set them on fire and laughed while they burned alive; and others they just hacked to death (above). Link to pix of the Rape is HERE. Nobody knows how many they slaughtered in Singapore, but the minimum number cited is 50,000. There was a place called Slaughter Beach, another called Canji (not the infamous prison) where not only were civilians shot in mass, but the Japanese bound people hand and foot, took them out to the middle of the bay, threw them over and then used them for target practice. The Bataan Death March in which at least 10,000 U.S. troops were murdered, usually by the old custom of beheading; 60,000 survivors died in the prison camp later. How about the slaughter of 100,000 civilians in Manilla in 1945? Have you heard the one about the Japanese troops eating American prisoners alive? They did. Even worse HERE. So let's slobber all over ourselves for the A-Bomb. Then there is the horror of the Japanese prison camps where prisoners starved to death by the tens of thousands or died on the slave labor rail building enterprises.

There isn’t a prisoner who didn’t believe that the Japanese intended to murder them all was it not for the Atomic Bomb. Not only were a million American lives saved through not having to invade Japan, but if the casualty ratio held it means that at a minimum, 20 million Japanese would have been killed as well. Japanese deaths on Okinawa were 100,000 soldiers and 100,000 civilians–who fought to the last woman and man---while our losses were 20,000 (highest in the war). Saipan casualties were 3,700 American dead and 61,000 Japanese dead including civilians fighting to the last man.

The civilian population of Japan would have fought to the last man standing, a practice they had already shown on both Saipan and Okinawa where once they had run out of ammunition civilians jumped off cliffs with their babies clutched to their bosoms rather than surrender. And for first person recollection? Try this one:

“In Fukuoka, a truck drove up to army headquarters, collected B-29 crewmen who had been shot down over Japan and drove them to a lonely field, where one by one a lieutenant chopped off their heads with his sword.

They were not the first to die in this manner. The Japanese had beheaded dozens of airmen and used others for bayonet and archery practice. They'd locked them in animal cages and tied them to posts for passers by to torment them (the poor civilians in Hiroshima). They'd burned them alive, buried them alive, dissected them alive and cooked and eaten their body parts. Such atrocities were not confined to wars end nor even to military prisoners. From the very first day of its 14 year war, wherever it went on the continent of Asia or in the Pacific, Imperial Japan had worked and starved and tortured its captives to death.

'We discussed it a lot', recalled Warren Morris, then a B-29 pilot in the 313th Wing on Tinian. 'We wondered whether to bail out or not, because the word we had was that they were executing our fliers....oh, we talked about that. We knew they were killing prisoners.”

The professors will call you a racist if you bring things like this up in the Ivy League....... Our Holy Left would rather have had a million young Americans and twenty million Japanese die than use a weapon to end it fast. What they also say is that America deserved to lose another million. That the war was unjust. Our guys deserved to be eaten alive.

Let’s hear it for our lousy lousy Left.

No Pasaran has a broader piece HERE. Including the point that the Atomic bombs had nothing to do with the Japanese surrender. Only the Emporer was moved by them. The Army wanted to fight. Most history tells us it was the Russians getting into the war that had more to do with Japan surrendering. Mark Steyn has a few things to say too.