My paternal grandfather (WWI Navy veteran) until his dying day (at the ripe age of 94) never ever forgave the Japanese for Pearl Harbor and had as much bigotry/paranoia toward them as Cedarford has toward the Jews. As far as Pappy was concerned Nagasaki and Hiroshima should have been the opening salvos because, as he said, the Japanese never surrender and he believed that in their eyes the war was merely on ‘pause’ and would be resumed by another ‘stab-in-the-back’. “Never trust a Jap” is something he would repeat to my brother and I frequently, as well as other things about the Japanese that I don’t need to repeat here. He was careful not to make such statements in front of our father (WWII Naval Aviator) who didn’t, and still doesn’t, tolerate such talk. But one time he had a ‘unguarded moment’ and I remember distinctly one Thanksgiving where my father dressed down his father in front of the rest of the family for his attitudes toward the Japanese. The amazing thing, to me at least, was that my grandfather’s attitude didn’t extend to other peoples of the Orient. He had a particular fondness for the Chinese. I dated a Chinese-American girl in high school and he was always badgering me about the fact that I should have stuck with her and married her (problem was her parents DID NOT approve of their daughter dating a ‘wide-eye’ and because she was raised to honor one’s parents….). I guess in his eyes the Chinese were our allies in the fight against the hated Japanese, and thus were worthy of his esteem and affection. To me Pappy was a reflection of that old adage: “Some wounds never heal”.