John E. wrote:
Mr. Self,

I don't consider myself a "revisionist asshole" but I do believe
that
the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were immoral. As were the
fire
bombings of Dresden, the raids over Tokyo, the bombing of London,
the
concentration and the internment camps, et al.

War is an immoral business, no matter who starts it.

It if solved anything, we wouldn't need to keep having them.

So what would you have done about the Japanese and Hitler?
Surrendered?

John E.

"Charlie Self" wrote in message
...



16 million served in the Armed Forces during WWII, if my memory is
working. I still ahve a partial book or two of the green stamps
around, stamps my parents bought for me when I was 3-4-5-6.

Now, we get revisionist assholes stating that A-bombing Japan was
immoral, and killed far more people than necessary. Oh, yeah. And
it
was racist because we didn't A-bomb Germany. True enough, but,
IIRC,
Germany quit about the same day Truman was sworn in to replace
Roosevelt, who had just died. Hitler suicided that same day and
that
war was effectively over. Too, I guess the revisionists haven't
heard
of the fire bombing of Dresden, nor the fears that all the top
brass
in the U.S. had at the time that the Japanese were prepared to
defend
their land to the last person. I still believe that.

Semper fi.

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