Reply #20: I don't get it either. There are many people alive today who fought in WWII but...

[TreasonousBastard]

Japan and Germany are now our BFFs and allies. My father and stepfather both fought in that war, and neither had a problem with Germans or Germany, just Nazis. Note that in both of those countries it's bad form to honor their war "heroes" from those days, even the ones who served honorably, and we don't shove ours in their faces. What's done is done-- let's get on with life.

Germany recently removed Rudolph Hess from his grave and cremated his bones because his was the only marked grave of any ranking Nazi and had become an embarrassing shrine and gathering place for neo-Nazis. Just try sticking a swastika on your truck over there and see what happens.