Don't dig too deep; remember, it's an island.
"Japan’s PM vows to find Iwo Jima’s WWII dead" by Eric Talmadge, Associated Press / December 15, 2010
IOTO, Japan — Now known in Japan as Ioto — that was what the island was called by residents before the war — Iwo Jima was the site of one of the most fateful and iconic battles in the Pacific and helped turn the tide against the Japanese.
It had already turned by that point.
For many Americans, an Associated Press photo of US Marines and a Navy corpsman raising the flag atop Mount Suribachi has become one of the most lasting symbols of the war, and of American sacrifice and bravery....
Which -- if you watch Clint Eastwood's "Flags of Our Fathers" -- was a lie!
Iwo Jima has been generally ignored since the war, has been left largely untouched, and is now uninhabited except for a few hundred troops at a small Japanese military outpost....
Kan’s government, inspired in part by the success in Japan of the 2006 Clint Eastwood movie “Letters from Iwo Jima’’ and concerned that time is running out, has made a strong effort to bring closure on Iwo Jima by stepping up the civilian-run mission to recover all of the Japanese dead....
The film made my list.
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Related: The Good, the Bad, and the Japanese
I think I will dig a little deeper, readers. The Iwo Jima mass graves are interesting in that the larger war crimes of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ignored, as is the fire-bombing of Tokyo.
All so the globe-kickers could see what their experiments could do when they went "live." The nuclear explosions against Japan stand (at this point in history) as the greatest single instances of war crimes in the history of mankind. All for nothing since the U.S. allowed Japan to keep their emperor anyway.
"Letters from Iwo Jima" only opens the door a crack; when flung open U.S. atrocities (and lies, like Pearl Harbor) during the "Good War" are appalling.
And NOW WE ARE the BAD GUY!
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Time for me to go take a smoke.
