From: Charles Gray
Date: 12/21/2003 9:33 PM Pacific

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Excellent post, sir. Summed up the reality of the days and the mind-set for
when these events occurred. Next, these armchair war critics will start
arguing with Washington's tactics at Yorktown.

Using a bomb like this on a city, or hundreds of thousands of bombs, is wrong
in my opinion. But in the context of a war that I wasn't around to fight, and
the fact that it ended the bloodiest war in history, practically overnight,
suggests that the atomic bombing of these two home island targets was no
different than conventional missions by LeMay's forces, with the exception that
these two missions accomplised an end to the war, which all the other massed
missions and thousands of casualties had not.

Gordon