-=> BOB KLAHN wrote to BOB BREED <=-   
      
    BK>  ...   
      
    LL>> For example, the phrase "comfort girls" is not what you think ...   
      
    BB> Well, unless you have a definition that means something   
    BB> beside prostitute, often forced. Then you're right -it's   
    BB> different than what I think. Korea is still trying to get   
    BB> Japan to pay for those women forced into comfort girls for   
    BB> their troops.   
      
    BK>  Funny, that, the comfort girls think that was exactly what we think.   
      
   Japan did pay a few, memory hazy but I think something less than 10 gals got   
   some money, but only a token amount.  Of course, most of the girls are dead   
   ow.   
      
    BK>  ...   
      
    LL>> War is hell, and nothing to be proud of.  No people should be   
    LL>> ostracized because of past events, or because of a military gone   
    LL>> wild.   
      
    BB>  Germany has worked very hard to make ammends for their   
    BB>  conduct during WWII. Japan very little, if at all.  In   
    BB>  fact they still make a big deal out of that war shrine   
    BB>  that has convicted war crime criminals on it. (One is the   
    BB>  guy who ran camp 731.)   
      
    BK>  And that is a very good point.   
      
      
   Truth is, I still don't trust them.  Yet today they have several ships right   
   here in San Diego doing "war games" with us. :)   
      
   Times do change...   
      
      
      
      
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