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Originally Posted by chiuchimu
No one alive today did anything.
My Mom was a BABY at the end of WW2. Why should I apology or recognized crimes I didn't commit?
I don't understand people that see Countries as an individual and expect its citizens to behave as one unified person.
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This is true. There is nothing personal here I think- just a simple acknowledgment of wrongdoing from times past by those in charge. Closure. Heck- the Vatican just recently apologized to Galileo. I think the US might one day say that nuking two cities to bring the war to a close might have been just a TAD heavy handed. (but such is hindsight)
As to Manchuria- nations can be bit by the conquest bug. China, England, Germany, Japan, Russia, the US, as nations all have gone ballistic and started conquering everything in sight. Sometimes you just have to let go and be friends. And I say this as a man with 6 family members that fought in the '42-'45 Pacific campaign.