[reed_inthe_wind]

I respect both sides in this debate. It is very probable that my siblings and I owe our existence and the life of our father to the quick end of the conflict with Japan. While the opposite is true for those in Japan, I don't feel guilt. The proper response to this reality is a real commitment to first manage and maybe eliminate the threat from WMD. George Bush and Tony Blair are the only world leaders that have the credentials for this job.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

We lived in Japan in the 1950s...
Our maid, Masako, told us when she was a child, she was forced to work in a munitions factory that had a large red cross painted on its roof. When the factory was hit by bombs in '45, some of the machinery was moved into caves where production resumed. She said the militarists had no plans to surrender, even after the second atomic bomb.