The monument on Attu

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The Japanese put a monument on Attu dedicated to all the soldiers that were in that battle.Some Americans are not happy about it.My opinion,at least someone gave a damn. Americans didn't see to it that anything was erected there to honor those that sacrificed everything.Thank you Japan for honoring my father when his own country didn't fit to do it.He was a survivor,but at a tremendous price.
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Your dad fought at Attu, which during WW2 was the only land battle fought within the United States proper and the only battle fought in winter conditions between the Americans and Japanese? (The Alaska Territory was an incorporated territory at the time, so it was part of the United States proper and not an overseas colony. It was at the time as much a part of the United States as the Colorado Territory and the Dakota Territory were in their time.)

He was there in the cold,such a dismal looking place.You can still see the remains of the camps if you google earth and look for the battlefield.This is the sad joke,they were trained in desert combat in New Mexico,then shipped to the Arctic.Military intelligence.Ha.They fought the only battle where there was occupation on American soil during WW2 and most people don't know about it.