Re: Recovery through Photography

Zebee Johnstone <zebeej@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
In alt.sysadmin.recovery on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 10:09:25 -0600
Robert Uhl <eadmund42@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Yesterday was 62 years since his uncle fell on Iwo Jima. I can't seem
to get up too much annoyance at some Americans enjoying the site of our
victory.

Enjoying thehorrible deaths of many civilians? Right, gotta love the
USAians eh?

It's not as if Hiroshima wasn't a military target as well. Two major
army camps were nearby, and the city itself was a supply and logistics
base, in addition to serving as an assembly area for troops and
materiel, presumably to get on transport ships to fight elsewhere in
the Pacific. True, it wasn't a purely military target, but most of
those had already been bombed conventionally, making it harder to
measure the damage caused specifically by the atom bomb.

None of that is meant to minimise in any way the horrors suffered by
the civilian population of Hiroshima, or to excuse the heartless
behaviour of the Americans in question, but it was definitely a
military target; much more so than Dresden ever was.

-=Eric
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