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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (222684)	3/6/2007 12:05:48 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Yeah. We've all heard the case. A blockade would have sufficed for an island nation with all its factories bombed to crap, and it's cities devastated by fire bombs. commondreams.org My father talked about this a lot (the issue, not his service, which he almost never talked about); he had an interest in this since he was a bomber in the Pacific theater, after being a former Marine ground pounder in Guadalcanal. He was blessed with a legacy of nightmares and guilt. As a child I grew up listening to his screaming at night in his dreams. I imagine many men were scarred in that way. I will side with my father on this one.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (222684)	3/6/2007 1:05:16 PM
From: Karl Siemens	Respond to of 281500

In the late 1960's, when I was in graduate school, one of our fellow students was a newly arrived Japanese. He stated that they were actually glad that the atomic bombs had been dropped, since it got rid of their militaristic culture. KS