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Skriven 2006-08-12 21:26:44 av Philip Lozier (1:267/169)
Ärende: Admiral Yamamoto
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And here we have another little follow up.

 * Forwarded from "Fido-NOSTALGIA Echo"
 * Original by Philip Lozier (1:267/169)
 * Original to FRANK SCHEIDT
 * Original dated Sat 12 Aug 2006  9:25p

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 FS>> Bob, here's something worth noting:  I've just gotten kicked out
 FS>> of an echo for discussing dropping the bomb on Hiroshima -- that
 FS>> it saved millions of lives meant nothing ... heh heh heh ...

 BB>> Still a hot button for some.  Note that most of these are the younger
 BB>> dudes, never lived during that war.

 FS> True.  They have no *idea* as to how sick we were of that, the
 FS> bloodiest war in American history.

Yea... and why my family is in this country.  What is sickening is that YOU
could, for no other reason than provoke and annoy other people, bring up that
idea of "celebrating" the method the world learned of the actual effects of a
nuclear weapon, and after it was used what the long term effects were.

You would "think" that a man of your supossed (and often self expressed)
superiority would see it as a learning experience as to why a people should
learn from their mistakes.

Unfortunately, that isn't in your character.

I spent many a year of my life (younger than you of course) in DEEP fear of
what could occur.  Remember the "cold" war?

Remember the Cuban missile crisis?  (I don't wanna hear they were cardboard
either, ... JFK didn't have his finger on "the button" for nothing).

Frank...

The 40's are gone.  If you still choose to live "there", then I don't know what
to tell you.  GROW UP and keep up with the times -might- be a good start
though.

NOSTALGIA or not, you still can't live your life with a bag over your head and
pretend that it's not 2006.  THAT war ended a LOOOOOOOOONG time ago ... but it
seems NOT in your mind.

Don't misrepresent your RUNNING AWAY from a manure pile you plopped out of your
own back end in another echo when I can easily cross-post the messqages that
made you RUN AWAY in the face of opposition just like the steak eating
stateside duty boy you were who CLAIMED to do more
for the WWII war effort than combat troops ever did (don't forget ... that's
archived too, even if not on the BBS you post as a USER from).

Maybe "Master Witt" will jump in here to help you out .. but judging from even
his refusal to go along with you in FIDONEWS, I very, VERY, much doubt that
will happen.

BTW ...  NOBODY kicked you out.  When you saw how totaly F**KED you were over
your misguided comments, you ran like a pansy.  We'd LIKE you back, so you
could finish explaining how a mind that's supposedly as sharp as yours could
end up so demented.

Phil






 FS> The people in that echo
 FS> referred to dropping the atomic bombs only WRT the Japanese lives
 FS> lost -- as though we were celebrating *death*!  How little they
 FS> know!  The American public wasn't celebrating *death* -- we were
 FS> celebrating *life*.  The celebration was that the act of dropping
 FS> those two bombs meant the seemingly endless war *would* end.
 FS> The loss of lives would *cease*.

 FS> Also they seem to have been taken in by historical revisionists
 FS> who claim the Japanese wanted to surrender *anyway*.  Yeah ...
 FS> sure ... as for knowing we'd win eventually, we strongly
 FS> suspected *that* after the Battle of Midway in 1942.  However the
 FS> war went on and on and on -- until the atomic bombs were dropped.

 FS> In my final message to the moderator there I suggested he look
 FS> into two topics -- both of which the people were only dimly
 FS> aware, at best:  The Bataan Death March and the Rape of Nanking
 FS> ... no one there will want to know anything about either of
 FS> those events, of course as the facts will clash with their
 FS> opinions of the "gentle" Japanese ... [sigh] ...

 FS> But that's all behind me now ... let's concentrate on truly
 FS> *important* things:  What will Paris Hilton do *next* to startle
 FS> the world????????

 FS> ... Famous Last Words #60:  "Well, would you like to try?"

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