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Stuart Hamm · 18 Jan 2011, 20:24 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: hammstu at sbcglobal.net (Stuart Hamm)
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:24:41 -0800 (PST)
Subject: (urth) (no subject)
In-Reply-To: <4D35F4E6.2000104 at gmail.com>
Message-ID: <379742.92153.qm at web81404.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

You should read "The Last Train from Hiroshima"..a book about what exactly happened at when the bombs dropped..and the handful of people who survived the first bomb, got on a train and were in Nagasaki for the 2nd blast as well...it cured on Doctors cancer...by far, the most frightening book I have ever read...

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( I used to have a signature here but don't want to offend S.O'W....)..!!!? ?? 

--- On Tue, 1/18/11, James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com> wrote:

From: James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: (urth) (no subject)
To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
Date: Tuesday, January 18, 2011, 12:15 PM

> Jeff Wilson-
> It is both a horrible crime *and* a justifiable, necessary action, which is one reason for the schism and doublethink; if the defenders stop to consider if their tribe of fallible, corruptible people is worth preserving by burning alive the widows and orphans of the tribe who is also prone to gratuitous slaughter, they might hesitate too long or even disreagrd their orders entirely.

To put things in perspective, in order to take Berlin, the Soviets pummeled the city with 5X the explosive force in rockets as Hiroshima. And the conventional invasion of Okinawa resulted in the deaths of almost 1/3 of the population (many from suicide or deliberate suicidal charges). By comparison, the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were a mercy.

But your point, as I take it, was that they are all awful.

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