"Joe" wrote in message
| What was his name? What camp was he held in? What branch and divison
| did he serve in. Where was he captured? Have you meet any of his
| fellow POW's? If not I can most likely locate some for you to talk to
| if your interested. And if you are interested, you better hurry, most
| are dead and the ones left will not be around to much longer.

Joe.. he was Belgian and died before seeing me.

| I will be happy to. But you seem to miss the point. The Japanese still
| fail to admit what they did was wrong. They refuse to say they are
| sorry. I think Americans have done alot to help the blacks become
| equal citizens. Ever hear of the cival war?

As little as 20 years ago racial prejudice and the KKK were running
roughshod over the freedoms of Blacks in the South Joe!

| Like I said mooron as soon as the jap Govt admits what they did went
| way beyond patriotism, war, race and religion and was wrong I will
| have nothing to do with them, If they do admit it I will forgive them.
| Until then they can kiss my ass.

I'm certain an apology will be forthcoming in the years to come.... but it
will be a hollow thing... voiced by people who had nothing to do with the
war.

| I could ask.

How would you phrase that question... "Heh are you an affable Oriental of
Chinese descent or one of them Japs "driving a UD truck,eating rice, raw
fish and wearing thick glasses."

CM