Remember, Japan bombed us first

In your article, “70 years ago, a balloon bomb landed in Everett,” Tom Crouch, senior curator of aeronautics at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., is quoted about the Japanese balloon bombs: “You have to put it in perspective. When the Japanese were doing this, we were burning Japanese cities down to the ground. It was sort of the ultimate Hail Mary pass.”

I should like to remind everyone that they attacked us first, with hardly any warning. We were retaliating as one has to, to save ourselves.

Typical of today’s liberal thinking “we are always at fault.” Well. We are and were not. The Japanese have much to confess in their dealing of POWs, Chinese and Koreans. Time they admitted, apologized and paid recompense. I will never buy Japanese until this is done.

Jon Fleming

Edmonds