"Look at it this way, the way the Japanese never seem to and Americans have never thought of," said a long-term American resident of Okinawa in 1990. "The relatives of Japanese soldiers killed and missing in action here have been visiting the island for decades, expressing legitimate grief over what their poor men endured. What they never seem to realize is that every Okinawan family was devastated far worse. No matter what happened to Japan, it was easier than what happened to Okinawa. Many Japanese talk about the atomic bomb with deep, moving pain while they're here, never thinking that
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