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What's the most important lesson this generation should remember from V-J Day?
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The lesson is our freedom and safety today and then came at a steep cost and risk. I pray no country wishes to engage in war with us but we must learn from these past conflicts and prepare for any future instances.
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Learn from the past or you will find some of the same types of bad people in your present...
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Almost no other country has a population that thinks like we do. Our ROEs are predicated on gentleman warriors meeting in honor on a field of battle. Quaint and dangerous.
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The most important lesson is the ongoing one - learn from history. It's amazing that number of people that have no idea what VJ day is other than a date on the calendar (or a holiday in Rhode Island -- properly called Victory Day).
There are those that declare that the day is racist because the "J" stands for Japan, and of course, the "V" for victory just goes to show that we're celebrating the fact we subjected another country. Heck, in Rhode Island, there are some that want to change the name to “Lobster Roll Day” or “Surf and Sand Day" ... *sigh*
Bull****.
To quote Mr. Berman (a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington) from an article he wrote in 2011* when discussing the move by some to get rid of the holiday in Rhode Island, “V-J Day keeps alive the magnitude of the event, and even those who use the day to sail in Narragansett Bay or visit the beaches in Newport have more awareness of the event it marks than they would if it were abolished. It is easy to forget how difficult and bloody the Pacific war was up until the very end, and the million Allied casualties that would have resulted from an invasion of the home islands. It was a war that opened with humiliating and painful setbacks, but the determination and courage of the U.S. armed forces and citizens slowly but surely turned the tide.”
VJ marks the end of a world war and the victory of democracy over totalitarianism. There were awful things committed by many during the war - that is the nature of war. You try to minimize the bad things that happen and emphasize the good ones, but bad things will happen.
What's the most important lesson we this generation should remember from VJ day? History is full of good and bad - learn from history instead of trying to rename, rewrite, or abolish it.
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* Where they Still Celebrate the Victory Over Japan by Lazar Berman
https://www.aei.org/foreign-and-defense-policy/where-they-still-celebrate-the-victory-over-japan/
There are those that declare that the day is racist because the "J" stands for Japan, and of course, the "V" for victory just goes to show that we're celebrating the fact we subjected another country. Heck, in Rhode Island, there are some that want to change the name to “Lobster Roll Day” or “Surf and Sand Day" ... *sigh*
Bull****.
To quote Mr. Berman (a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington) from an article he wrote in 2011* when discussing the move by some to get rid of the holiday in Rhode Island, “V-J Day keeps alive the magnitude of the event, and even those who use the day to sail in Narragansett Bay or visit the beaches in Newport have more awareness of the event it marks than they would if it were abolished. It is easy to forget how difficult and bloody the Pacific war was up until the very end, and the million Allied casualties that would have resulted from an invasion of the home islands. It was a war that opened with humiliating and painful setbacks, but the determination and courage of the U.S. armed forces and citizens slowly but surely turned the tide.”
VJ marks the end of a world war and the victory of democracy over totalitarianism. There were awful things committed by many during the war - that is the nature of war. You try to minimize the bad things that happen and emphasize the good ones, but bad things will happen.
What's the most important lesson we this generation should remember from VJ day? History is full of good and bad - learn from history instead of trying to rename, rewrite, or abolish it.
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* Where they Still Celebrate the Victory Over Japan by Lazar Berman
https://www.aei.org/foreign-and-defense-policy/where-they-still-celebrate-the-victory-over-japan/
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That even sporadic in being well supplied, the Japanese fighters of that War were so tenacious the Americans had to have at least a 3 - 1 majority.
All that changed after V-J Day was the Japanese Government merely switched " Battle Fields from the Military conquests to the Boardroom/ Bottom line spreadsheets.
All that changed after V-J Day was the Japanese Government merely switched " Battle Fields from the Military conquests to the Boardroom/ Bottom line spreadsheets.
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