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  • October 18, 2006 at 11:48 am in reply to: Japanese atrocities #6797
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    Does anyone know if those numbers for Nagasaki and Hiroshama include those who got sick and died from the fallout after the initail blast?

    I do not believe so.  I think those numbers mentioned resulted from the initial blasts.

    October 17, 2006 at 10:16 pm in reply to: Historically significant sites #6814
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    Ticonderoga is in New York.  I want to say near Lake Champlain, but it may be Lake George.Massachusetts is really cool up there near Lexington and Concord.  Boston has a lot of stuff too, like the Bunker Hill Memorial or Logan Airport (where the 2 planes that hit the towers flew out of…it's still ominous driving by there).  If any of you guys ever come up this way, let me know, I'll show you around.   Whenever I give someone directions to New Hampshire, I say take 95N and when the towns start sounding like the Revolutionary War, the exit is close.

    October 17, 2006 at 9:04 pm in reply to: Historically significant sites #6812
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    Yes, I'd have to say DC as well.  Has anyone ever been to Fort Ticonderoga?  Went once a long time ago.

    October 16, 2006 at 10:57 pm in reply to: Japanese atrocities #6790
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    Phid, it is a moral “tightrope”.  😕  Interesting you used the word punish.  I think punishment is justified in some circumstances.  It ended the war.   If it didn't end, I'd have more of a moral problem with the use of atomic bombs.  Or maybe it's because I'm just a warmonger.  😐

    October 16, 2006 at 9:44 pm in reply to: Trying times #6782
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    I still picked the GWOT.  They may not be as much a threat right now as what this country has experienced in the past, but they could be if we don't do anything about it.

    October 16, 2006 at 9:35 pm in reply to: Japanese atrocities #6788
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    Agree.  I don't think you're stereotyping, Stumpfoot, that's just the way it is unforunately.  The similarities between the Japanese of WWll and modern day Jihadists surprised me.  Education, training, warped religious interpretations, etc.

    October 16, 2006 at 8:59 pm in reply to: Japanese atrocities #6786
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    I was always more interested in the European theatre of WWll.  Just recently started learning more about the Pacific side.  The Japanese, during that war, were far more brutal than the Germans.  I read that, when they captured an American, they would tie him to a tree, stab him repeatedly with their bayonet, then decapitate him.  (now I know where the Islamic Jihadists got their ideas).

    October 14, 2006 at 9:54 pm in reply to: A new generation of heroes #6775
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    Forgot to add a comment. The World War ll generation has always been known as the greatest generation of heroes.  Could this GWOT change that?  Only history will tell.

    October 14, 2006 at 9:05 pm in reply to: Religious references in the American social view #4489
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    The Declaration of Independence

    When, in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the Causes which impel them to the Separation.We hold these Truths to be self-evident: that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.

    October 13, 2006 at 9:06 pm in reply to: Are the Comparisons between Vietnam and Iraq fair? #4527
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    Good questions, Phid.  I really have no idea how to answer other than with my own opinion.  I think some people just can't handle war.  They can't handle the horrors and ugliness of it.  Also, with the GWOT, I think a lot of people just have an “I quit” attitude.  I strongly feel the media is not helping any because they emphasize the negative. I've yet to figure out why they do that and why they can't be more encouraging.  So another question.  Why does the media emphasize and harp on the negative so much during war time nowadays?  (Quite the opposite during WWII I would imagine)  Is it society's fault?  Or do they actually have an agenda?

    October 10, 2006 at 8:49 pm in reply to: Question about this section #6708
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    Thanks, Phid.  Sorry I didn't make myself more clear as to what I meant.

    October 9, 2006 at 8:55 pm in reply to: Question about this section #6706
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    Well actually, what I meant was where do YOU draw the line concerning what can be posted in this section?  Can we discuss happenings as recent as the first military operations in the GWOT, for example?

    October 9, 2006 at 11:11 am in reply to: I apologize #6673
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    I lost my John Browning avatar.  Triste10.gif

    September 19, 2006 at 8:00 pm in reply to: Chief Justice Earl Warren #6329
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    Stumpfoot, I've been busy lately, but would you (and anyone else) be interested to see what he is being accused of and we good discuss and investigate it?  It could be interesting IMHO.  And don't take me wrong, I'm not defending Ann in any way.  Personally, I do like her, but as you said, she is quite biased.

    September 19, 2006 at 7:55 pm in reply to: Top phrases landing on this site: September #6633
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    As far as search engines, do they only 'hit' the words in the topics, or in the message body as well?

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