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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: The Philosopher who wrote (42086)	1/8/2002 9:00:13 PM
From: J. C. Dithers	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Thank you for posing that question, Chris. It's time someone did. As time passes, for many persons the war is becoming nothing more than a sterilized event described in a history textbook. These people were not personally affected by the war, knew of no one who served in it (let alone who died in it), and only know it from what they have read, which in most cases is not extensive. Moreover, while military service was once a common choice, or even mandatory, for younger people, now it is not. More than a quarter of a million American men and women gave their lives up in battle in World War II. They died in a war that was a crossroad of whether freedom or fascism would prevail in the future world. This was a war whose outcome was uncertain at the time we entered it. Save for a series of fortuitous mistakes by Hitler, the Axis powers could very easily have been the victors. Every living American, now and in the future, owes their free lives to these men who rest in their graves. These men paid for our freedom and present-day comfort with their blood, and we are forever deeply and profoundly in their debt. This is not flag-waving or jingoism. It is the simple and crystal clear truth. No one who benefits from living in America today should ever, ever forget it. Those who choose to criticize and second-guess the actions we took to win the war, from a long distance, with knowledge only from books and movies, who had no obligations or responsibilities in the war, who gave nothing of themselves or paid any of the price necessary to win it .... should think very long and very hard about how they can best honor the memory of those who paid the ultimate price. It is the very least they can do. It is the very least that they owe. JC

To: The Philosopher who wrote (42086)	1/10/2002 2:41:50 PM
From: Yogizuna	Respond to of 82486

I could easily say yes or no to that question, but will not because it infers if one had a close loved one die at the hands of the Japanese for example, one should understand your point of view or be on your side of the argument, and if one did not, would argue against the atomic bombing. Let's just say I have had many bad things happen to me and some of my loved ones in my lifetime by certain racial groups, but do not value the lives of others in their race any less generally speaking.