University Daily Kansan / Friday, December 6, 1991
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Pearl Harbor commemoration offers opportunity for healing
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Bush is expected to express regrets at Pearl Harbor this weekend for the U.S. internment of Americans of Japanese ancestry during World War II, White House officials said yesterday.
In speeches to mark the 50th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Bush also will relate his own World War II experiences while talking about the current state of U.S.-Japanese relations, said the officials, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Bush has said he would not apologize for the atomic bombs the United States dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end the war.
But apologizing for the internment of 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry, mostly in camps in California and other Western states, is another matter, said one official.
In his remarks at Pearl Harbor, Bush will say that the whole intermittent incident offended U.S. princess Kate and her son, but not happen again, the official said.
The government has made $1.25 billion in financial restitution to survivors of the camps after a 1988 fundraiser, the government violated their civil rights.
Japanese citizens living in Hawaii who also were rounded up and put in camps will be included in the presi-
sion of session of regrets, the official said.
Bush will not address the issue of whether Japan should apologize to the United States for the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, the sources
Japanese Foreign Minister Michio Watanabe earlier this week expressed deep remorse about the attack that captured by its decision to start the war.
Aresolution expressing regret for Japan's World War II aggression
was also before Japan's pari-
ment, but officials said it might not be ready for tomorrow's Pearl Harbor observances.
Bush will give three separate speeches tomorrow, first at the National Cemetery of the Pacific to an expected 4,000 Pearl Harbor survivors and their families, then at the U.S.S. Arizona Memorial and then to a large pier-side gathering of World War II veterans.
"We go to Pearl Harbor with the view of commemorating the bravery and the loyalty and the dedication of American forces at that point in history," said presidential press secretary Marlin Fitzwater. "But we look to the future of Japan as one of intense friendship and competition. And we will continue to try to improve these relationships."
Bush discussed the observances yesterday as he talked with African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela in the Oval Office.
"It's a big event and it's going to be very emotional." Bush said.
Bush, a World War II pilot, was shot down in the Pacific by Japanese artillery in a bombing run.
Sources said Bush's first speech, at the cemetery, would be a broad address reflecting on the war; the speech at the memorial about the sunken Arizona would focus on Bush's personal experiences and views of the war; and the final speech at the pier would be forward-looking, including comments on future U.S.-Japanesies.
Bush will mention regrets at the internment of Japanese-Americans in at least two of the three speeches, sources said.
The sources said the speeches were being carefully developed to not offend Japanese sensitivities. But Bush did not want to appear to be too solicitous to the Japanese because there are many veterans who still have bitter memories about Japan.
Medals awarded to 22 survivors of Japanese attack
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON—When the Japanese planes flew in low over Pearl Harbor, Austin Flack was standing in a doorway waiting for his Sunday paper.
William McLaughlin had just finished breakfast and stepped outside the mess hall to smoke a cigarette.
Yesterday, they were among 22 survivors of the Japanese attack who received the congressionally authorized Pearl Harbor Commemorative Medal in a ceremony in a chapel at the U.S. Sulder's and Airman's Home. Similar ceremonies held in other parts of the country.
McLaughlin, an 18-year-old Marine from San Francisco at the time of the attack, now is a retired Air Force master sergeant. Like most of those honored, he lives at the Soldier's and Airmen's home.
"The first time they flew over, the gunner in the back of the airplane waved at me and I waved back," he recalled in an interview. "The second time he came around, he was waving a machine gun."
Within moments, he said, he and others were returning fire with Springfield rifles. He said they shot down two planes of more than
Flack, who had enlisted in the Army from his home in Marion, N.C., said: "I had just gone to the door and was standing there waiting for the paper. When the first planes came over, they were so low that a good fisherman could have caught them with a hook and line."
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