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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (128577)	7/30/2005 6:04:54 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793846

Why Truman Dropped the Bomb That is what started this whole discussion, Tom. :>) Message 21556854 lindybill@doesntgettheword.com

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (128577)	7/30/2005 6:21:07 PM
From: ManyMoose	Respond to of 793846

I doubt that these revisionists would have had the same view if they had been cued up for the invasion of Japan with the rest of our war-weary soldiers. I'm sure they would have cheered the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki just like everybody else who lived because of it. Anybody who wants to revise the history of the Pacific War should read "Goodbye, Darkness" by William Manchester. He wrote of it from a nose to nose perspective that nobody, least of all latterday revisionists, can deny. He saw war at its worst, and survived because the invasion of Japan became unnecessary. A friend and colleague is the son of a couple who survived Hiroshima by virtue of a small hill that shielded them from the blast. They became American citizens after the war. The displacement of the so-called traditionalist view within important segments of American opinion took several decades to accomplish. It will take a similar span of time to displace the critical orthodoxy that arose in the 1960s and prevailed roughly through the 1980s, and replace it with a richer appreciation for the realities of 1945. But the clock is ticking.