| The atrocities that the Japanese committed in World War II most definitely matched the atrocities that the Germans committed, and the Rape of Nanking is a prime example of this, but it seems like the crimes of the Japanese were largely glossed over or ignored, and I’ll never understand why. I attribute a lot of this to the prejudiced Euro-Centric or White-Centric view of many historians, and I hope that this gets corrected some day. The Japanese were every bit as brutal as the Germans, and their treatment of prisoners of war was atrocious, but they never got nearly the amount of world condemnation that the Nazi’s got. __________________ When I think of President Kennedy, I think of what Shakespeare said in Romeo and Juliet:
When he shall die, take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine,
That all the world will be in love with night,
And pay no worship to the garish sun.
Robert F. Kennedy’s eulogy to John F. Kennedy at the 1964 Democratic National Convention
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