Bidens honor Pearl Harbor's fallen in visit to WWII Memorial

It's so nice that we have a president who can brave checks notes a lite rain to honor our troops.

The wreath contained a wild sunflower, the state flower of Kansas, in honor of former Sen. Bob Dole, a war veteran 

Nice touch on Biden's part remembering Republican Senator Bob Dole .

The War is long over. We are left with the memories. Whether it is remembering the war dead in USA, Europe, Japan or Germany....let us put history to History.

Let us remember that War causes deaths and much suffering. Let us forgive and pray for ALL who died.

As clouds of war gather now...Let us remember the horrors of World War 2.

It is a very nice memorial service with president.

Rest in Peace

This board is about honoring those Biden honoring those who lost their lives at Pearl Harbor and is not a place to bash Japan and insult the Japanese.

I'm having a typo morning. Correction below:

This board is about President Biden honoring those who lost their lives at Pearl Harbor and is not a place to bash Japan and insult the Japanese.

Thank you, Japan Today, for acknowledging this tragic day.

Nice touch on Biden's part remembering Republican Senator Bob Dole 

I totally agree. We should always remember. Never again.

It's so nice that we have a president who can brave checks notes a lite rain to honor our troops.

This is an extremely good post.

Please go home.

I've read a lot on the war in the Pacific.

Thankyou to all Americans who served and fought from an Aussie.

Bidens honor Pearl Harbor's fallen in visit to WWII Memorial @japantoday:

Japan continues to pay a heavy price for the attack until now, having no choice but to allow US to consolidate a huge base in Okinawa and follow US directives in both internal and external affairs.

So..

This would have been a good opportunity for the Japanese government and the JSDF to send a delegation to honor the dead of that war and make amends for the past. Likewise there are multiple other opportunities among the nations of the Pacific to commemorate that war and atone for the past. A delegation to ANZAC day, another to commemorate the British surrender at Singapore, one in South Korea, etc. . This is what the Germans do every year at the sites of their worst barbarities to assure the victim nations that they have changed and are sorry for their past. VJ day should be commemorated as well, probably in Tokyo at a site by the bay. This is how Japan can finally put that war and all the distrust behind it.

Good on the Americans to remember these heroes who died at the hands of cowards.

I would not call the IJN cowards. They fought bravely but were poorly led. Anyone who goes to sea intending to fight another navy has a certain degree of steel in them. It is not for the timid.

What should also be remembered is the mistake of FDR (Democrat) putting 120,000 Japanese, German, and Italians in internment camps. 2/3 of them were US citizens. Boggles the mind how US citizens were put in internment camps.

Yes to honoring the fallen who we're sneak attacked by kamikaze suicide bombers of Japan's imperial army

Good for Biden! But I'm interested to see how the right criticizes this. I'm sure they will find some way to do it.

Is there a psychological study comparing the feeling of a damage inflictor and victimhood? It seems to me that the feeling of victimized is many times stronger than vice versa. 

The Japanese had no qualms when they heard the news over radio that Imperial Japan's combined forces had attacked Pearl Harbor on the early morning of Dec. 8, 1942 (Japanese calendar), while the Americans had a great deal of victimhood and so took no time to retaliate against Japan. The end result: atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

To the Americans, Pearl Harbor was no less as atrocious as Hiroshima and Nagasaki; maybe, more.

Pardon me, but I digress. Kadena-based fighter jets crashed on civilian areas twice in pre-1972 Okinawa. The crash in 1959 is known in Okinawa as "the Day of Miyamori Elementary School Jet Fighter Crash" and memorial services have been held at the crash site every year for the victims, many of them school children. The 1961 crash occurred in Kawasaki District in Katsuren Village (now Uruma City).  Dec. 7 (Japanese calendar) is the day when the Kawasaki crash occurred.

Probably, few Americans stationed here know about all these incidents.

Using your own soldiers like terroristic suicide bombers to wage war is something i sincerely hope the Japanese military does not intend on doing again.

Kyo wa heiwa dayo neToday  12:34 pm JST

Yes to honoring the fallen who we're sneak attacked by kamikaze suicide bombers of Japan's imperial army

British Intelligence agents in Japan discovered the plans for this attack 6 days prior and informed the US government who, for whatever reasons, chose to ignore it.

Kyo wa heiwa dayo neToday  12:34 pm JST

Yes to honoring the fallen who we're sneak attacked by kamikaze suicide bombers of Japan's imperial army

The attack was carried out by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service. The base was attacked by aircraft including fighters, level and dive bombers, and torpedo bombers, not kamikaze aircraft.

They were sacrificed for higher sinister goals.

Japanese intelligence officer Takeo Yoshikawa has obtained full details of the U.S. fleet at the port. But the Americans didn’t know that almost the entire Japanese navy had left their ports?

However, as with most commentators, I agree that this is a thing of the past. After all, war is bad.

What should also be remembered is the mistake of FDR (Democrat) putting 120,000 Japanese, German, and Italians in internment camps. 

Yet the Japanese were the only ones ever financially compensated.