Looks Like He's Going

So it seems obama is going to visit Hiroshima after all. This will no doubt generate a lot of froth from many directions.


Well, it should be interesting...


I think if he apologizes for the U.S. dropping the bombs, that's when heads will explode...
 
While there are good, patriotic Americans who believe.....with good cause....that the use of nuclear weapons in Hiroshima and Nagasaki was unnecessary, the POTUS is not going there to apologize for said use.
 
Has there been a post-war Japanese leader drop flowers at the Arizona memorial ?
I'm not being sarcastic, maybe there has.
 
That Obama is going to Hiroshima in attendance with Abe gives the appearance of siding with a revisionist.

You lay down with dogs, you get up with fleas.



American Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor Memorial Society
3156 Myers Lane - Makanda, Illinois 62958 - [email protected]

April 13, 2016

President Barack Obama

The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20500

Dear Mr. President:

As president of the American Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor Memorial Society, I urge that you forego a trip to Hiroshima until you can first make an equally poignant memorialization of the Americans who perished in Japan. Specifically, my members who are former POWs of Japan, their families, and historians want to see you break ground for a memorial to the American POWs at their port of entry and slavery into Japan, the dock at Moji on Kyushu.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his administration have been working since taking office to replace the established history of Japan’s abuses during the war with a denier’s view. As a result, your visit will not merely be unreciprocated; it will sanction the Abe Administration’s anti-historical efforts and abrogate your mission, which is to remind us all what we are capable of both good and bad.

For your visit to Hiroshima to be successful, it must include the acknowledgement of all the victims of the war in the Asia Pacific. Hiroshima symbolizes not only the destructiveness of mankind, but also what lengths we may need to go to end suffering and tyranny.

Your spokesman Josh Earnest said on April 12th that whatever policy decision the administration makes regarding a visit to Hiroshima "will be consistent with the President’s strong view about the bravery, courage and heroism of those Americans who fought and won World War II, thereby securing the liberty and freedom not just of the United States, but of human beings around the world."

The War is about how it is remembered. We hope that you will respect the interests and memory of America’s Pacific War veterans.

Sincerely yours,

Ms. Jan Thompson

President

Daughter of PhM2c Robert E. Thompson USN, Bilibid & Mukden, POW# 2011
 
Funny how the "they never apologized!" crowd, as soon as they are proven wrong AGAIN, immediately forgets their oh-so-certain claim and moves on to conditions, qualifications, and yeahbutts.
Gotta move the goal posts. It's the lib way.
 
The visit, how Obama acts and what he says will be interpreted differently by different perspectives. To many, it will clearly be a continuation of the Obama apology tour.



Why Japanese may see Obama's Hiroshima visit as an apology anyway

And while polls show that most Japanese do not expect Obama to explicitly apologize for the bombing, many Japanese are likely to interpret his mere visit as an apology. The White House made clear Tuesday that he would not apologize.
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“If Obama chooses to make a speech while visiting … he would be in danger of his words being misinterpreted, politicized, and over-analyzed as pundits debate what he said, what he should have said, and what he did not say,” Hornung said in an interview with the Japanese newspaper Sankei Shimbun last month.

Why Japanese may see Obama's Hiroshima visit as an apology anyway





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His audience awaits...

Hiroshima atomic bomb victims want apology from Obama


Tokyo (AFP) - Victims of the atomic bombings of Japan want an apology from US President Barack Obama when he visits Hiroshima next week, the head of a survivors' group said Thursday.
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"Many atomic bomb victims think it's not all right if (Obama) doesn't apologise," said Toshiki Fujimori, the group's assistant secretary general and also a survivor of the Hiroshima bomb.

"Atomic bomb victims are demanding that it be made clear that the dropping of atomic bombs was inhumane and breaches international law, and that will be confirmed by his apology."


Hiroshima atomic bomb victims want apology from Obama





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