From: (KEV OF BBA)

Nice one Art- amazing how these academic idiots decide to ignore the rest of
history. Adjusting reality to suit their own purposes methinks.

Cheers
Mad Jock

Firstly, let me say I know the atomic bombings were absolutely necessary.

Secondly, an academic excercise such as discussing the bombings as a way to end
the war can exclude the atrocities Art mentioned. I just wish most of said
academics would not count only American lives. They should count Japanese,
Chinese and Soviet( in China) lives as well as Soviet expansion into nothern
Japan proper.

Thirdly, let me say such academic excercises are nice diversions but they have
no relevance to reality.

And, lastly, it is a good thing such discussions between the pro-bombing and
anti-bombing factions exist, I just wish they would not extend to a museum
display that should remain politically neutral. Put the airplane there with a
sign saying something like this: This B-29 dropped the first atomic bomb ever
used in anger.


Dan, U. S. Air Force, retired