{"id":18889,"date":"2016-12-29T01:42:41","date_gmt":"2016-12-29T01:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18889"},"modified":"2016-12-29T01:43:07","modified_gmt":"2016-12-29T01:43:07","slug":"no-apology-for-attack-but-still-a-profound-promise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18889","title":{"rendered":"No apology for attack, but still a profound promise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/28ABESPEECH-1-master768.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18890\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/28ABESPEECH-1-master768-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/28ABESPEECH-1-master768-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/28ABESPEECH-1-master768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As the son of a gallant World War II veteran who\u00a0jumped into the fight just weeks after a treacherous attack against the United States, I was hoping for an apology.<\/p>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t come. Instead, the prime minister of Japan &#8212; the nation that yanked us into a global bloodbath &#8212; offered something that came pretty close to an apology.<\/p>\n<p>Shinzo Abe visited the USS Arizona Memorial in Honolulu as the guest of President Obama, who is on vacation there with his family. He spoke of the &#8220;precious souls&#8221; who died during the Japanese air attack on our naval and air forces on Dec. 7, 1941.<\/p>\n<p>He vowed that Japan never again would go to war. Abe offered a statement of condolence that he said, in effect, will never end.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/12\/27\/world\/asia\/shinzo-abe-text-pearl-harbor.html?_r=0\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/12\/27\/world\/asia\/shinzo-abe-text-pearl-harbor.html?_r=0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The prime minister also expressed his gratitude for the generosity that Americans have extended to his people in the years since the &#8220;date which will live in infamy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On behalf of the Japanese people, I hereby wish to express once again my heartfelt gratitude to the United States and to the world for the tolerance extended to Japan,&#8221; Abe said.<\/p>\n<p>An actual apology would have been the best outcome of this first-ever visit to Pearl Harbor by a Japanese head of government.<\/p>\n<p>This American, though, will accept the prime minister&#8217;s statement of eternal condolence.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the son of a gallant World War II veteran who\u00a0jumped into the fight just weeks after a treacherous attack against the United States, I was hoping for an apology. It didn&#8217;t come. Instead, the prime minister of Japan &#8212; the nation that yanked us into a global bloodbath &#8212; offered something that came pretty &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18889\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No apology for attack, but still a profound promise<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12,13],"tags":[540,3535,4261,5059,5302],"class_list":["post-18889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","category-military-news","category-national-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-pearl-harbor","tag-shinzo-abe","tag-uss-arizona-memorial","tag-world-war-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18889"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18892,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18889\/revisions\/18892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}