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Dionel Aviles, under secretary of the Navy, signed a donation contract July 28 officially transferring the historic, World War II harbor tug Hoga (YTB 146) to the city of North Little Rock, Ark., for the Arkansas Inland Maritime Museum. The city plans to transport the vessel from the Maritime Administration’s National Defense Reserve Fleet, in Suisun Bay, Calif., to a display site in North Little Rock, on the Arkansas River. Secretary of the Navy Gordon England said, “This historic vessel serves as a testament to the unrelenting courage and fierce determination exhibited by Hoga's crew during the attack on Pearl...

The numbers lost at Peal Harbor and the two Japanese cities don't even compare - Japan lost several hundred folds when the balance sheet is finalized. We can rationalize all we want and we have done this so often - but it still remains the second bomb was a vindictive, uncalled for, genocidal strike. We did not listen to the Japanese after the first bomb, in the language of their culture, they surrendered. To Japan, I, as one person, as one American wish to say this: the first bomb was strictly business. The second bomb, I wholly apologize. It was...