Japanese students moved by reconciliation trip

I sure hope this is a private school with private dollars paying this thing and not tax payer money paying for the idiot teachers and douche bag school officials who decided this was a good idea. There is nothing for anyone to apologize for because in wars its either us or them. I value the lives on our military members more than the I value the lives of the civilians of other nations and I am sure other countries feel the same way about their service members too..


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Japanese students at a junior high school near Hiroshima are studying and reacting to a Tacoma group’s upcoming trip to Japan seeking forgiveness for the U.S. atomic bombing of their city 64 years ago.

Tacoma-area native Marc Milsten is having students in one of his English classes study an article that appeared in The News Tribune about the trip. He wants the teens to understand the viewpoints of Americans.

Some of the ninth-grade Japanese students said they were moved – even surprised – Americans would travel to Japan for this purpose. Some students also acknowledged their country’s responsibility and one student said Japan should apologize first because it started the war.

The group of 138 ninth-graders at Ohno Higashi Junior High School is studying about peace and the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

Milsten, 30, is a graduate of Tacoma Baptist High School and Pacific Lutheran University. He has lived in the Hiroshima area and taught English to Japanese students for nearly four years.

Sixteen people – most from the Tacoma area – will travel to Japan later this month to acknowledge and ask forgiveness for the destruction caused by the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. The interfaith group will be in Hiroshima on Aug. 6 and Nagasaki on Aug. 9 to attend anniversary ceremonies remembering the attacks. The group calls the trip a “Journey of Repentance.”

jamesrage said:

I sure hope this is a private school with private dollars doing this thing and not tax payer money paying for the idiot teachers and school officials who decided this was a good idea. There is nothing for anyone to apologize for because in wars its either us or them.


Japanese students moved by reconciliation trip | The News Tribune - Local | Seattle-Tacoma News, Weather, Sports, Jobs, Homes and Cars | South Puget Sound's Destination
Japanese students at a junior high school near Hiroshima are studying and reacting to a Tacoma group’s upcoming trip to Japan seeking forgiveness for the U.S. atomic bombing of their city 64 years ago.

Tacoma-area native Marc Milsten is having students in one of his English classes study an article that appeared in The News Tribune about the trip. He wants the teens to understand the viewpoints of Americans.

Some of the ninth-grade Japanese students said they were moved – even surprised – Americans would travel to Japan for this purpose. Some students also acknowledged their country’s responsibility and one student said Japan should apologize first because it started the war.

The group of 138 ninth-graders at Ohno Higashi Junior High School is studying about peace and the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

Milsten, 30, is a graduate of Tacoma Baptist High School and Pacific Lutheran University. He has lived in the Hiroshima area and taught English to Japanese students for nearly four years.

Sixteen people – most from the Tacoma area – will travel to Japan later this month to acknowledge and ask forgiveness for the destruction caused by the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. The interfaith group will be in Hiroshima on Aug. 6 and Nagasaki on Aug. 9 to attend anniversary ceremonies remembering the attacks. The group calls the trip a “Journey of Repentance.”

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They have one conservative student. :mrgreen:

What in the **** are they repenting for? The fact that the Japanese bombed one of our military bases and sucked us into a global war?

Jesus Christ.

(thought I'd keep to the religious nature of this thread).

American said:

They have one conservative student. :mrgreen:

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I bet he got scolded by the idiot liberal teacher for that remark.

jamesrage said:

I bet he got scolded by the idiot liberal teacher for that remark.

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Needless to say he won't be on the trip. :doh

Can some religious person explain to me the concept of repenting for a war you didn't start??

I don't get it. :roll:

Catz Part Deux said:

Can some religious person explain to me the concept of repenting for a war you didn't start??

I don't get it. :roll:

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Don't sweat it, there's nothing to get.

American said:

Needless to say he won't be on the trip. :doh

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They'll probably make him write a essay on why we should be sorry while he stays behind.

How many Japanese go on reconciliation trips to Nanjing?

We should tell the Japanese we'll bomb them again if they don't shutup about it. j/k

I wonder if the Japanese students would travel to Nanking, China to ask forgiveness there. In just over 5 weeks the troops of the empire of Japan killed over twice as many civilians in that one Chinese city than the total for both nukes dropped on those two Japanese cities.

Just wondering.

...and yes, I certainly hope this is all done with private money.

they gloss over it in their history books.

dropping the bomb on the Japanese was the morally right thing to do, they committed crimes against humanity at least as heinous as the Nazis.

I just posted the following on the news papers web site and my feeling are not alone there.

Another example of a school system run a muck and failing to teach history. How dare these children think they have the right to offer and apology for our ending the war and saving hundreds of thousands of Japanese lives and a similar number of American lives. I am ashamed of them and feel their teachers
and everyone connected with this trip needs to be fired. No one has the right to apologize for something they didn't have anything to do with. This is a stupid as as the apology for slavery. No one alive had anything to apologize for.

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When are Parents going to rise up and demand that schools teach the facts and truth and get away from the dumbing down to the lowest common denominator and get back to teaching and holding back children who can't read and get bad grades and then blame it on racism or some other lame excuse for being stupid and spending their time listening to rap music instead of studying. This pisses me off no end.

while I don't think we should ever dismiss the horrible effects of using nuclear weapons, and should acknowledge it as a travesty; it was a travesty unfortunately forced. The US didn't start that war, nor did we want anything to do with it. We were brought in by the Japanese themselves, I do think it was unfortunate that we had to use the bomb. And we should note from the results of it to not use it less ultimately forced to do so. But in the end, their government started the war, not ours. We were simply looking to get out of the war.

This just shows that our communist public school system is working according to plan.