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

To: Solon who wrote (42264)	1/14/2002 6:05:22 PM
From: Yogizuna	Respond to of 82486

Thanks for posting that very interesting reading material about the alternatives to dropping the A-bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

To: Solon who wrote (42264)	1/14/2002 6:39:57 PM
From: J. C. Dithers	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Solon, you do know that your long quote was from a High School term paper! users.erols.com Not to worry. I think that is one bright lad. Notice that at least twice he prefaced his comments with a reference to "the benefit of hindsight." Which makes him smarter (certainly fairer) than you. Years ago my youngest daughter (who ended up class valedictorian) was looking for a high school senior term paper idea. I asked her if she knew about the Japanese-American internment is WW II, and she hadn't heard of it (which says something about high school teaching of history). She got really into it, researching it and eventually getting in touch with some of the people from the camps. She wrote a torrid condemnation of the U.S. for having done such a thing. (I'm sure she got an "A"). Later, in college, she spent her junior year at St. Andrews in Scotland, and fell under the spell of the leftist economics department there. She came home a virtual Marxist. I had some nervous times, but I figured she had to work things out for herself. She went on to become a lawyer, worked with the D.A.s office and followed cops on the streets, represented a death-row inmate who scared her to death..... and now she is as conservative as I am! My point being ... there is always hope. Even for you. JC ;-)