[txroadkill]

Thanks for the references (kind of, now I'll be up all night reading). I may have read that before and just didn't file it as remarkable because in context it probably seemed like the right thing to do.

[rlmorel]

There were some who didn't like doing it and didn't...some who didn't like it, but saw it as necessary, and I am sure, some who liked it very much.

It was accepted. War sure does suck.

I lived in Japan and the Philippines when I was a kid, and in the PI, the war seemed very real (in the sixties). As Boy Scouts, we hiked the path of the Bataan Death March, which has markers.