Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]And the US government - which means the citizens of the US - has not only formally appologized to those Japanese Americans and their survivors, but has paid reparations. Any US citizen with an education and a vague sense of history understands that what was done to the Japanese American citizens during WWII was utterly inexcusable. But I doubt that you will find a single non-pacifist citizen of the US who will say that fighting WWII was wrong. So lets cut the BS, shall we. Peace is clearly better than war - and that's something the monsters who struck the US should have thought of before they boarded those planes. And it's something that the nation's that harbored those monsters should have thought of. B. D. - --- Jeffery Smith <jsmith45@bellsouth.net> wrote: > And the US imprisoned Americans of Japanese > extraction. Let's not thrown too > much s*** here. At one time or another, any country > with a conscience will > say "It was something that had to be done." Vent if > you must, but screaming > into a pillow might work better. For there to be a > winner, someone has to be > a loser. It is never pleasant and it would be best > if the contest weren't > staged in the first place. > > Jeffery Smith > New Orleans, LA > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On > Behalf Of George > > Lottermoser > > Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 5:44 PM > > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > > Subject: RE: [Leica] Terror > > > > > > darkroom@ix.netcom.com (Austin > Franklin)9/12/016:16 PM > > > > > I was told the US was attacked by the > > > Japanese at Pearl Harbor, > > > > The Japanese attacked a military installation > during a declared > > war. > > > > > > and the US, at the time of the Hiroshima bombings, > > > was at war with Japan? > > > > The US disintegrated two cities full of > civillians. > > > > George > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.ca address at http://mail.yahoo.ca