re: Battle of Peleliu

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My grandfather fought the Japs at Peleliu.

I was with him and my grandmother at the World's Fair in 1984. When we got to the area where all the different countries had their exhibits, he looked up at the Jap flag, turned to grandma and said "Let's go" and we left.

He couldn't believe they allowed them to fly that thing over American soil. To the day he died, he couldn't stand the sight of those people.

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Props to your gf for his service in that hell hole.

I can see how he felt that way.

My old man fought on Okinawa.

After the Japanese surrender, he went in with the occupation forces and spent more than a year there. He developed an appreciation for Japanese people and culture. We were the first folks in our ZIP Code to own a Toyota.

I knew a Bataan survivor who had the same feeling towards the Japanese as my dad did in his later years. The last car he owned was a Toyota Avalon. His quote about Japanese soldiers was “They were just doing their job.”

Not flaming your grand dad, just pointing out that different folks reached different opinions.