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Originally Posted by timwilky
My mother actively avoided Japanese product as she had a brother and two close family die in Burma.
What the Japs did to prisoners of war was inhumane and there is a generation of mainly elderly who remember their loved ones not coming home and the stories of those that did. You cannot blame them.
We live in a more enlightened world, but the atrocities did happen and many believe they were conveniently swept under the carpet.
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No, I cannot blame them, and yes these things happened and must NEVER be forgotten.
I would even argue that its valid for you to have similar feelings and attitude.
Your kids however?
Forgive and Forget?
Well forgive anyway, lets not forget it so that the memory stops a repeat of these things.