The way a nation treats its veterans speaks louder than any patriotic slogan. Today, in the middle of a government shutdown, Democrats in Washington are once again showing that veterans are not their priority.
Instead of ensuring our troops get paid on time, they are holding up a clean Republican funding bill in pursuit of subsidies and benefits for illegal immigrants.
This indifference is not new—it reflects a pattern in American history where veterans, even those who sacrificed the most, have too often been forgotten.
That reality was made chillingly clear when Sapphire Dingler, a graduate student in public history, unearthed disturbing testimony in recently digitized U.S. archives.
The records detailed atrocities committed by Japanese doctors during World War II against Allied prisoners of war—including Americans.
One doctor, Hisakichi Tokuda, inspired by the infamous Unit 731, conducted gruesome experiments such as injecting soy milk intravenously into captives.
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Men suffered seizures, collapsed, and died. Their fates were recorded in dusty files that had gone largely unread for decades.
These stories were not isolated. In 1945, Italian officer Ernesto Saxida was subjected to repeated injections before dying in agony.
American prisoners were experimented on at Kyushu Imperial University, their deaths later disguised in official records as casualties of the atomic bomb.
Testimony at the Yokohama War Crimes Trials confirmed what many never knew: Western POWs were not spared from the horrors of Japanese medical experimentation.
Some were literally cut open alive. And yet, for decades, these truths were obscured or buried, their memory erased twice—once by their deaths, and again by history’s silence.
Groups like Pacific Atrocities Education are now trying to correct that silence by bringing attention to the Pacific front’s forgotten brutality.
But their work underscores a shameful fact: America has not always stood up for its veterans or even preserved their stories. At times, our government actively covered them up.
Franklin Roosevelt’s administration downplayed Japanese atrocities in the Pacific for wartime political reasons. After the war, many perpetrators walked free because Washington valued their biological warfare data over justice.
In other words, veterans who endured unspeakable suffering were sidelined by political priorities.
That same disregard is playing out today in Washington.
The House of Representatives, under Republican leadership, passed a clean continuing resolution to keep the government open until November 21.
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The bill contained no policy riders or cuts—its only purpose was to buy time for negotiations while guaranteeing that active-duty troops would be paid.
Democrats in the Senate have rejected this bill seven times.
History has taught us the cost of forgetting veterans.
From the prisoners who suffered in secret labs in Tokyo, to the POWs whose deaths were concealed in false records, to the veterans today who face delayed paychecks because of Democrat obstruction, the lesson is the same: when politicians value politics more than patriots, veterans pay the price.
Republicans are fighting to end that shameful cycle.
If you have a World War II veteran story to share, or would like to collaborate in preserving these memories, please fill out the form on the Pacific Atrocities Education website.
Because honoring veterans requires more than words—it requires action, both in history and in the present.
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