in article 4176437B.2672E84A@yahoo.co.jp, Eric Takabayashi at
etakajp@yahoo.co.jp wrote on 10/20/04 7:52 PM:

> So why don't Americans hate Americans who commit atrocities, demanding the
> same be done to them as those darn Japs? (eg, recall handling of My Lai
> Massacre) Why are they not as angry about American wrongdoing being covered
> up? Why don't we teach such as _War Without Mercy_ or _Embracing Defeat_ in
> all schools to show the darker side of the US and the human side of the
> Japanese, during and after WWII? Why does survey show even American ignorance
> of the A-bombings (or the reasons for them) is on the increase?

I don't know of any Americans who were not angry about the My Lai Massacre.
Those jerks disgraced my country and deserve the court martial they got.

As for the A-bombing, I don't know if that is really an atrocity, since
Japan would not have surrendered if both bombs had not been dropped.