WHO ARE OUR REAL ENEMIES?

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Originally Posted by cuppabillytea

None of us has any enemies from a century ago.

What we can do is look at the historical facts and determine how we can avoid falling into the same traps.

If you're talking about Them and Us. The entity that was Them a century ago, no longer exists. They are all different people and evolved Cultures and so are we.

Recriminations are utterly pointless.

None of us has any enemies from a century ago.

Indeed. I recently spent a couple of weeks in Thailand, visiting some sites on the infamous Burma-Thai Railway, culminating in the Dawn Service at Hellfire Pass, and the 11:00 AM service at the Kancnanburi War Cemetery. My father in law gave the address. He was one of only two former POWs who was able to attend this year. He spent two and a half years in that particular hell, and then a further six months in the coal mines in Japan. He turned 95 yesterday.
He bears no animosity or ill will towards the Japanese, and in fact has a Japanese daughter in law, and two grandsons who are obviously half Japanese, who live in Tokyo.

His work at reconciliation between former POWs and their Japanese and Korean captors got him an OAM.

All I'll say is, if HE can forgive, so should we.