Re: Attitudes toward Korean War

[Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>]

At 07:27 PM 8/2/01 EDT, Jhk789@aol.com wrote:
>But, let's remember that most of the Koreans  
>who served in the Japanese military during WW II 
>were drafted by the Japanese and 
>put into worst jobs like prison guards. 
>Blame the Japanese military for what happened to the POWs! 

Well, yes-and-no.  Yes, the Koreans were drafted and forced into Japanese
military service.  But the Japanese and Formosans were universally the
worst of the prison-camp guards, the most brutal, vicious, nasty, and vile
of a brutal, vicious, nasty, and vile lot.

They may not have wanted to serve -- but that hardly earned them the right
to vent their bile on Allied POW's.

Marc

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