“…[T]he day that the Japanese captured Nanking. As many as 300,000 civilians were killed.
I would like to understand how such things can happen in a civilized society. It is as though a mantle of evil is periodically draped over the world.”

— Virgil John Tangborn

October 1, 1938

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I would like to understand how such things can happen in a civilized society. It is as though a mantle of evil is periodically draped over the world.”