As Admiral Dennis C. Blair, a former commander of the US Pacific Fleet, stated at a recent conference, The history of Asia from the 1930s to about 1955 or so was not pretty in any way hellip .I don t think any country can have a monopoly on righteousness, or on guilt and shame for that time. Blair added that the attempt to hold a we were right and you were wrong sweepstakes is not going to help our children and grandchildren understand what happened there.