Ya, the standard about Mush Morton is that he "hated" Japanese and machined gunned those lifeboat survivors, but the bigger story is that the survivors shot first. Who knows? History is written by the victirs (at least partly). Yet we can't be romanced, or jingoistic, and say bad deeds on our part were always justified. There's so much grey in war. Maybe some nastiness can be....downplayed, at least...it's pretty easy to be angry with an enemy that started a war and treated prisoners so, so horribly.
My friend's mother was basically a Saint. Wonderfully kind, and tested and qualified by layers of Life. Yet she really, really didn't like the Japanese. She of course had friends and family directly affected by Pearl Harbor and was a young lass who married a young Lt. in 1942, so...
My wife works for a big company, and a Trainer came from another city to teach people some corporate thing. She was German, spoke with an accent though an Aussie, and she was telling a tale and said, "Vell, when we lost ze war..." and my wife was thinking, hmmm, "we" didn't lose!
