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Please don't disrespect all the Filipinos that died in the Japanese occupation of the Philippines. The Japanese brutality that ensued was legendary which included the beheading of my grandfather's oldest brother. To add insult to injury before beheading him and several others, they bled them so that they could use their blood for transfusions to injured Japanese soldiers.
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Don't be so melodramatic. My grandfather's brother was literally cut in half by machine gun fire at Pearl Harbor right in front of my grandfather, who retold the story to me only once because it was so painful to him. That doesn't excuse nuking a country after ignoring their wish to surrender for months.
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My family lived in caves for a period of time hiding from the Japanese.
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My family (on my father's side) was enslaved by Romans, but that also has nothing to do with this.
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War is war. It's not meant to be pretty, but to cast off this ideology that the Japanese were trying to surrender and that they deserved better treatment. Please give me a freaking break.
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Surrender is surrender. "Cast off" this idea that somehow because they did bad things they deserved to be wiped out after they gave up. Justice is reached in a court room, not on the receiving end of a bomb.