Dropped by a Dem. Such warmongers! ** -- ryno hoo 08/06/2020 2:19PM
75th anniversary of a mostly peaceful trip of the Enola Gay over Hiroshima ** -- HokieDan95 08/06/2020 12:52PM
"My God, what have we done?" -- graycalhoo 08/06/2020 1:04PM
I thought that was David Byrne? ** -- JMHoo 08/06/2020 1:24PM
As awful event as it was, I've wondered what our history would have been -- NJHoo 08/06/2020 1:21PM
Awful event but had to be done. They refused to surrender. -- Blah 08/06/2020 2:06PM
The casualty estimates for an invasion of Japan made Truman’s decision -- DFW HOO 08/06/2020 1:33PM
I make no apologies to that Japaness regime. However, I will apologize ... -- Blah 08/06/2020 2:16PM
I forgive you. ** -- BFKDHokies 08/06/2020 4:00PM
Why would YOU apologize? It was the forties and we were just attacked by -- hoobedda 08/06/2020 3:50PM
And yet the US paid them reparations. See Civil Liberties Act of 1988 -- Seattle .Hoo 08/06/2020 4:27PM
No problem with that at all. It was wrong. You read my other post right? ** -- hoobedda 08/06/2020 4:39PM
Yeah. But you seem to be all up in arms about apologizing. Maybe because it -- Seattle .Hoo 08/06/2020 4:42PM
You misunderstood. You and I (and Blah) have nothing to apologize -- hoobedda 08/06/2020 4:56PM
My understanding, possibly incorrect, is that most (2/3?) of these folks -- southdenverhoo 08/06/2020 7:03PM
War is HELL. Thus, I said the atomic bomb had to be dropped. However ... -- Blah 08/06/2020 6:32PM
What do you want? Are you trying to make some point that hasn't been -- hoobedda 08/06/2020 9:30PM
Are you playing the victim card? You are the biggest whiner of all time. -- Blah 08/07/2020 08:55AM
Interesting POV I suppose. The government is us by the way. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 08/06/2020 4:59PM
Notice we did not intern German or Italian Americans. I wonder why? -- WahooRQ 08/06/2020 4:23PM
Ever hear of Admiral Yamamoto? Did you really just ask me that? -- hoobedda 08/06/2020 4:37PM
You seem overly sensitive on this topic for some reason. Historically, it -- WahooRQ 08/06/2020 5:05PM
Yamamoto was reluctant, too, because he knew that Japan could not win a -- Seattle .Hoo 08/06/2020 5:11PM
My understanding was their plan was cripple the Pacific Fleet, engage in a -- WahooRQ 08/06/2020 5:18PM
Yep pretty much. They were SOBs to the rest of Asia, obviously. Colleagues -- Seattle .Hoo 08/06/2020 5:30PM
So you had no problem with the internment of Japanese Americans? -- Blah 08/06/2020 4:11PM
It's history. It happened. Get over yourself. Your days will be filled -- hoobedda 08/06/2020 4:27PM
Your post, at the very least, was IGNORANT. Think before you write. -- Blah 08/06/2020 4:35PM
STFU....really. They considered the Germans too but deemed it too much -- hoobedda 08/06/2020 4:46PM
Say it was WRONG then. Did you read YOUR post! You said ... -- Blah 08/06/2020 6:21PM
Why would the opinion of a veteran about an internal domestic policy be any -- Seattle .Hoo 08/06/2020 4:49PM
I don't know, maybe because they were around (at the time)? ** -- hoobedda 08/06/2020 4:58PM
So was my mom. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 08/06/2020 5:00PM
So what lessons can be learned from the internment of Japanese-Americans? ** -- SixerHoo 08/06/2020 4:35PM
See above. Perhaps you slept through 1988? ** -- Seattle .Hoo 08/06/2020 4:28PM
Our B29 fire bombing campaign of Japan was worse than the A bombings -- HokieDan95 08/06/2020 1:16PM
That's true. We incinerated as many as 500,000 civilians -- DanTheFan 08/06/2020 1:39PM
Re: Our B29 fire bombing campaign of Japan was worse than the A bombings -- graycalhoo 08/06/2020 1:30PM
Bravo. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 08/06/2020 1:09PM
My Navy Vet Dad walked around Nagasaki a few weeks after we dropped the -- Tuckahokie 08/06/2020 1:07PM
Pray all you want. It won't help move us further from future use of nuclear -- Seattle .Hoo 08/06/2020 1:16PM
Can't put genies back in bottles -- Beerman 08/06/2020 1:22PM
Tell that to all our previous Presidents and other officials who have -- Seattle .Hoo 08/06/2020 1:27PM
Like Covid19? Asking for 2 friends who are positive. -- aint2Hokie4me 08/06/2020 2:10PM
I'm in full favor of reduction -- Beerman 08/06/2020 1:30PM
With our militarist establishment I doubt there is danger of us "falling -- Seattle .Hoo 08/06/2020 1:34PM
I'm not even sure that's top-10 on reasons Donnie sucks, TBH ** -- Beerman 08/06/2020 1:39PM
I hear that. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 08/06/2020 1:44PM
I am frankly surprised it was last. Perhaps a -- Shenhoo 08/06/2020 1:10PM
The jury is still out. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 08/06/2020 1:16PM
I believe at the time we only had 2 ready...had Japan not surrendered it -- Tuckahokie 08/06/2020 1:12PM
That's correct. ** -- NJHoo 08/06/2020 1:14PM