From: MaryHaas@aol.com
Date: Sun Apr 11 1999 - 13:05:43 PDT
We never know the real truth of what was attempted and what really happened. Yes, we have been told stories and the number of lives saved did increase the more the politicians made the statement. The truth is we know very little of what happened and it was possible to cover up or hide the truth. I bring this up because we must be careful that our young people search and learn as much as they can. In Japan some have said that there has been an attempt to cover up what the Japanese did during W.W.II from much of the population. There was a big hassle over a revision of the textbooks in Japan a few years ago concerning W.W.II. Let's not mention what is missing from the U. S. textbooks and the increased amount of information that we are learning from the work of historians today as they talk to the soldiers and not the Generals. I learned a lot last year when I read the RAPE OF NANKING. What happened in Nanking was in the newspapers in the early 1940s, but largely missing in the history books after the war. Shall I say, the book has given me a second thought on every president since the end of W.W.II and their policies. Mary E. Haas