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    Hiroshima day

    I see that Bliar's Broadcasting Co. is bringing us the glories of H. day this week.

    Wear your mushrooms with pride.

    #2
    "Wear" your mushrooms with pride.

    So that's why I never got high

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      #3
      Well everything else under sun moon and starts seems to get a "day" so day a bomb was dropped that killed 130,000 to 140,000 should be worthy of getting one as well.

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        #4
        Tsk, what a negative attitude

        Perhaps it's being celebrated (if that's the correct word) because the number of deaths in Hiroshima may have been dwarfed by the number of deaths which it stopped? (What a clumsy sentence.)
        Personally I'd prefer to be celebrating a 'Middle East' day in a few years, but the people with the power are just wussies nowadays.
        (Note that the above was not intended to be taken seriously)
        Why not?

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          #5
          Oh look...another "we hate america" day

          Mailman

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            #6
            Originally posted by Mailman
            Oh look...another "we hate america" day

            Mailman
            How do you work that out?

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              #7
              Originally posted by zeitghost
              Quite.

              Those two bombs saved rather more lives than they took.

              The alternative being the invasion of the Japanese home islands.

              The casualties would have been truly horrendous.
              Absolutely. Saved considerably more lives than would have been taken, both Allied and Japanese, otherwise. Consider the following:

              - One night's conventional bombing on Tokyo killed 100,000 people.

              - In the invasion of Okinawa, the first amphibious invasion on Japanese home soil, the casualties were 107,000 Japanese soldiers, 72,000 US soldiers and 130,000 civilians.

              - The projected casualty figures for Operation Olympic (the invasion of Kyushu) were up to 280,000 US casualties alone. For Operation Downfall (Operations Olympic plus Coronet, the conquest of the entire Japanese home islands) there were estimates of up to 10m Japanese casualties and between 2-4m US casualties.

              Mind boggling numbers.

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                #8
                Yes...yes...but the apologists have already tried to discredit those numbers!

                Horoshima day is just another day for ignorant morons out there to have another reason to hate america (not that they actually need any reasons!).

                Just wonder when we are going to have a "Peking Massacre" day!

                Mailman

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Mailman
                  Yes...yes...but the apologists have already tried to discredit those numbers!

                  Horoshima day is just another day for ignorant morons out there to have another reason to hate america (not that they actually need any reasons!).

                  Just wonder when we are going to have a "Peking Massacre" day!

                  Mailman
                  Mailman, you're just trolling, and not very successfully at that. You and Chico should attend lessons. It'll keep you occupied hile waiting for your benefit to come through.

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