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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Has she explained what she meant by “when Iwo Jima unfortunately happened” because seeing the clip it seems like she mispoke, maybe meaning to reference something else? Or she somehow thinks Iwo Jima was an event related to internment[/quote]

Yeah, I’m thinking she misspoke and meant Hiroshima. I guess OP could ask her, but that’s not as much fun as just blasting her here and elsewhere anonymously. [/quote]

I read where she was asked and doubled down on the Iwo jima part.  I had initially assumed she confused Iwo jima with Hiroshima.  And, even if she had said Hiroshima, it will was inappropriate.  She does go out of her way to slam the US.

My uncle was convinced that his life was saved by Hiroshima as he was a Marine in a force that was preparing for the invasion.  He likely would have been in one of the first groups to land.[/quote]

I am okinawan.  Your uncle's perspective is not uncommon for tjose of us from those Japanese islands.

Ryukyu women threw their children off cliffs into the ocean because they would rather do that than surrender to the Americans.  They were told that the American soldiers would brutalize the population just like the Japanese did in parts of China.  I promise that many who survived were horrified at that act once the Americans arrived and were basically kind teenagers from farmlands and cities handing out chocolate to the kids, including my parent who was very young at the time.

War is horrible, but sometimes there is Just War, which you must win at all costs.  WW2 was one of those times.

Omeish is practically a teenager, and a poster child of the recent failures of FCPS to teach history and critiql thinking skills.[/quote]

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