Windsorite Susan Taylor was at Toast, ready to pay for her breakfast when she was told the bill had been covered.

“The waitress made an announcement in the restaurant that this lovely couple in the corner is paying for everyone who is in the restaurant at the time for breakfast,” Taylor told AM800’s Mornings with Mike and Meg.

“She (the donor) said that she was American, and she just wanted to apologize,” said Taylor.

“She said she knows that their president has caused a rift in what was happening between our countries, and she wanted us to know that not all Americans are bad people.”

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    Maybe because Japan wasnt the country with the crazy power hungry dictator who wanted to cleanse the world of non-caucasians? Sure they did some bad stuff, but so did the US. It was a war.

    Edit: if it makes people feel better, I can rephrase it as “horrible warcrimes”, I wasnt trying to play down ww2. Just trying to make the point that Germanys role was pretty prominent.

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      Even with your edit, it’s clear you owe yourself a bit more research on this topic before making further assertions about it.

      • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyz
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        Yeah, the place so bad it got the Nazi ambassador who was a card carrying member of the SS to start hiding and protecting people.

        Nothing to see here.

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      Hooo boy, you oughta look at the shit Japan did to Korea and China, they put the Nazis to shame sometimes

      Then again the US dropped two nukes on civilians and every president avoids apologizing when they visit the memorial so you have a point there