>>Listening to the troll brigade really makes me wish the US had stayed out of WWI and WWII so the trolls would either not exist or would be whimpering to their German or Japanese masters now.

LOL, don't you find the story even slightly interesting? Perhaps you might even find a hint of pathos that the foe is so desperate to strike at its enemy's homeland that it resorts to balloons in the wind, but success is limited to a few country folk who meddle with a downed balloon and blow themselves up. We all know what the Japanese would have done if they could have invaded, but that's not the story. As for staying out of the World Wars: are you serious? Involvement led directly to many of the benefits enjoyed to this day.

I don't understand why you're getting worked up. This all began with a claim that Obama wanted to apologize to Japan and has morphed into a perception of defensiveness about all sorts of things. Why?