XPost: alt.fan.furry, rec.arts.anime.misc   
   From: bliss@sfo.com   
      
   On 08/13/2010 04:47 PM, sanjian wrote:   
   > B Sellers wrote:   
   >   
   >> Yes well I was born in 1937 and remember the announcement   
   >> of the bombing of Pearl Harbor and of the Declaration of War as   
   >> well as the famous "a day that will live in infamy forever" but   
   >> December the 6th was a bad day too because that is the day that   
   >> Roosevelt finally got the Manhattan Project started.  I didn't   
   >   
   > You say it was a bad thing.  I say it was a good one.   
      
   	And you have read "Barefoot Gen" sometimes called   
   "Gen of Hiroshima"?   
      
   	Did you know thousands of American POWs died at   
   Hiroshima?   
   	Did you know the delivery of the Nagasaki bomb   
   was so off center it missed the targeted area and took   
   out a residential area with the oldest Catholic Church   
   in Japan?   
      
   	Well I guess it was the Japanese Imperial Army's   
   fault.  They scared us so bad, and made us so crazy-mad   
   that we bombed them with the brand-new hell-on-earth bomb.   
   And what kind of people would volunteer to fly kamikaze   
   planes into battleships.  (Sounds bad but was very   
   ineffective).   
      
   	Thank heavens the Hydrogen bomb was not ready yet.   
   	But you cannot un-make an omelet without burning   
   the eggs so I guess it was a good idea.  Plus the American   
   people were not up to fighting on and on with being   
   deprived of food and fuel and tires for the cars and   
   trucks.   
   	Or we could have put a blockade on the sea   
   all around Japan and the same end might have been   
   realized in 6 months or a year instead of a few weeks.   
      
   	later   
   	bliss   
      
   	   
      
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