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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (133252)	5/17/2004 4:15:12 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I don't think it is necessarily more palatable. My father suffered from nightmares all his life over his participation in the bombing of Japan. He had tremendous guilt over that. He was in Guadalcanal, and so he had faced hardship, and extreme violence in hand to hand jungle combat- but he seemed to have more guilt over his bombing runs- especially since they ran them, at the end of the war, almost unopposed. His letters and notebooks reflect how badly he felt about what he was ordered to do. It is pretty clear to me that he thought some of what he did was criminal- as in a war crime.