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To: robnhood who wrote (4248)	4/17/1999 2:13:00 PM
From: D. Long	Respond to of 17770

<<D,,, saw a little program on tv the other night---the people who were there when the bomb hit are still paying the price in many sad ways---for them the war is still on---->> At least there is still are Japanese. An invasion of the home islands would have destroyed an entire generation of Japanese men. Ever heard of Japanese honor? No doubt every man woman and child would have commited sepaku rather than have the Emperor a prisoner in a besieged Tokyo. The lives that were saved far outweigh the costs, for America and Japan. How many men and women would not exist today if that offensive would have been carried out? Two generations, rrman, millions of people, would never have been born. If you add that cost to the equation, the cost of not having used the bomb would have been outrageously criminal. Yes, it is sad that the survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are still paying for that awful time. But the alternative would have been far worse.