Move on
You can only apologize for so many times when you realized what you’d done in the past was very wrong. You can only apologize much lesser than that if it was done by your previous grandfather or great grand father. You shouldnt even be apologizing if it was your ancestor who did the sin, no matter how wrong the matter on hand it was. So why is he, or the many other previous Prime Ministers of Japan and Germany keep apologizing for WWII? Now I do know its not necessarily everyone feel the same way as I do in regards to this, but I think that we should all move on. No?
So we should all keep shouting and cursing and hold our patriotic banners on every corner stones of all WWII memorial parks demanding more apologies from Japan or German government every year during day like this? Keep boycotting playstation and BMW maybe? Booing and making mockery chants towards every Japanese athletes in every sports events? Oh if that’s not enough to protray the burning anger buried deep inside of you and me, maybe we should grab a couple Japanese guys and hang them in public, or even better, an execution style bullets-to-the-head? We might as well rape a couple Germans girls and burn them after that. Maybe, just maybe that will be worth more of a compensation to all of us - the so called after-war victims?
This is not what we really want? We want to hold their government responsible and publically admit that what happened in World War 2 are both ethically and hystorically wrong. We want to educate future generations (including theirs) about the ugly side of war? I doubt it. So what are we seeking? A sense of memorial indictment or moral justification or some sort so that no one will ever forget or forgive what the Japanese and Germans did? Do we feel sorry and angry for what happen to our great grandparents? Is that so? So are the Jeps and Germans not entitle to a round of public apology by the allied since I’m pretty sure war crimes were committed by all sides during the war? Maybe they dont deserve it because they start the war.
Japanese government offers monies as compensation. We gladly received it with open arms and then said ‘money is not the real issue here’. Then continue asking for more but at the same time keep reasoning that the crime committed during that time can never be compensated by any finite amount of monetary value in existence.
I am not even implying that the crimes commited by the axis during WWII are lightweighted and forgivable, cuz they’re not, by any means. A lot of times I feel disgusted and sometimes hate them for what they did, and movies like Schindler’s List sends shivers down my spine. And then I watched on news about yet another public apology made by the Japanese Government. Does it make me feel good and contempt? No. Does it make them feel good? I doubt it. Should their future generations keep apologizing for what their cruel and satanic ancestors once did for the next 60 years? You tell me.
Moving on does not mean you have forgotten what has happened in the past. It means much more than that.
