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Title: | Getting personal | |||
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| Name: | Mark Lincoln | | |||
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| City: | Houston | State: | Texas | | |
| Over a decade ago, I sat behind my father in a National Park Service bus at the Grand Canyon. I engaged in a conversation with a Japanese man behind me, who was about my father`s age. My Japanese is limited to desuka dotowa desuka. His English was somewhat better. I welcomed him to America and expressed my joy that he could come here. My father, who lost his best friend in a raid against Bougainvillea staged the his Marine VMB from Guadalcanal, fumed. There was nothing on earth that I could do to make my father not hate the Japanese. But I could not hate that Japanese. I can understand why my father will always hate the Japanese. And I can understand that few Japanese today are guilty of WWII. I do not care what Rahm Emanuel`s father said. All that matters to me is what Rahm Emanuel does. |
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