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as a older person mid 70s I will never ever
Find it within myself to forgive and forget
Having seen and met returning prisoners of
War it is just not possible .But the younger
Generations do not have our memory's so can
Do so .Which is most likely how it should be
I've mentioned this before on other threads that one of my uncles fought the Japs in New Guinea. He is now 91 and he says he will never ever forgive them.
As for me, I find the average Japanese person that I have met and I do meet plenty of Japanese University students in my job, to be very polite and cause no problems whatsoever.
I think it is time to forgive but not forget the atrocities carried out by the Japanese against our soldiers. We must move on and not get bogged down like they appear to have done in the middle east. Nothing is to be gained by carrying a grudge.
As for Mr Abbott he has said before anything that he says that is not written down cannot be taken as the "Gospel Truth". Therefore he admits he can lie.
Back in the eighties a church elder turned up in a new Honda. Plenty of people questioning how someone who had been a prisoner of the Japanese could do such a thing, His answer was simple. It was a long time ago and as a Christian he had to be able to forgive. We are now almost as far removed again from that statement in time.