Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site drusd.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!umcp-cs!gymble!lll-crg!dual!qantel!ihnp4!drutx!drusd!phl From: phl@drusd.UUCP (LavettePH) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Commemorating Hiroshima Message-ID: <11@drusd.UUCP> Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 16:30:03 EDT Article-I.D.: drusd.11 Posted: Tue Aug 13 16:30:03 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Aug-85 22:08:08 EDT References: <438@kontron.UUCP> <1392@uwmacc.UUCP> <296@ihdev.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Denver Lines: 11 I'm with you,Floyd. Nobody commemorates the 100,000+ Filipino civilians who died forty years ago in Manila when the Japanese turned it into a battleground rather that declare it an open city as MacArthur did in 1942. As I recall it, we only had two regrets at the time: 1. The bomb wasn't ready in time to use it on Berlin. 2. We didn't have enough of them to take Japan off of the map. - Phil