12.31.2016

Full text of President Obama’s speech at Pearl Harbor


The Japan Times News
Full text of President Obama’s speech at Pearl Harbor (article)
Summary
Why is Hiroshima only paid attention, when we think and talk about The World War II? Have many Japanese listened carefully to Obama's great speech? People should not blame what other people did but they ignore what themselves did. All countries have bad memories which occurred a long time ago, and which they don't want to talk about. They want to hide them. Obama said, "As nations, and as people, we cannot choose the history that we inherit, but we can choose what lessons to draw from it, and use those lessons to chart our own futures.
However, I think that these words would only deserve the citizens who admit their history. In Hiroshima, no Japanese people would say the same things if Obama speeches about the power of reconciliation in Hiroshima.
Please tell the speech to Hiroshima.
"There is more to be won in peace than in war. The reconciliation carries more rewards than retribution." There are victims of war not only in Hiroshima but in Pearl Harbor and other countries. We should take it very seriously and send the message to the world.

The New York Times
Shinzo Abe at Pearl Harbor: ‘Rest in Peace, Precious Souls of the Fallen’(script)

The New York times
Text of President Obama’s Speech in Hiroshima, Japan

Words in this article
tribalism / the state or fact of being organized in a tribe or tribes.
retribution / punishment that is considered to be morally right and fully deserved. revenge.
humanity /  benevolence,  virtue, charity, man

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