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To: ManyMoose who wrote (61561)4/24/2008 4:20:26 PM
From: Cogito  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 542132
 
>>As I said, it's not a completely black and white issue.

It is if your father survived the war because he did not have to participate in the invasion of Japan.<<

MM -

When you get down to personal cases, that's where you really see the true costs of war. I'm happy that your father's life was spared.

You may be right that Japan, as a nation, is better off because of what happened.

Neither of those things stop me from grieving for the 2.6 million Japanese who died.

- Allen



To: ManyMoose who wrote (61561)4/24/2008 5:24:48 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 542132
 
My father would probably have had to participate in the invasion, and yet he thought the nuking of Japan was wrong, and that the fire bombing of civilians was also completely wrong.

So it's not black and white- and wasn't even that way to all the men who served.


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