One need only imagine Pearl Harbor, the fire bombing of Tokyo, the Rape of Nanking, the Bataan death march, or Hiroshima and Nagasaki to realize the hell that opened up in the Pacific during WWII.  Despite these horrors, in the decades following the war, citizens of the country who had desensitized itself toward the enemy re-discovered a common humanity through the return of war trophies.

To forget the stories of people who fostered international understanding in the aftermath of such a war would be yet another tragedy.