On Saturday, December 7, 2019 at 2:53:41 PM UTC-5, Bruce wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Dec 2019 14:15:24 -0500, Dave Smith
> > wrote:
>
> >On 2019-12-07 1:42 p.m., dsi1 wrote:
> >
> >> Speaking of Japan, today is Dec. 7th. Tora! Tora! Tora!
> >
> >Yep. It was not just an attack on the US. That was just a side show to
> >their well coordinated invasions across the Pacific. The US had been
> >hassling the Japanese about their aggression on China and Mongolia and
> >tried to force them to stop by means of embargoes on steel and oil.
> >They thought the US lacked the will to actually fight and that they
> >could knock the war spirit out of the Americans by destroying their
> >Pacific fleet. So we can celebrate Tora Tora Tora as the countdown to
> >Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
>
> Can you just stick to boring posts and not foray into disgusting ones?
> Those bombs on civilian populations were the 2nd biggest atrocity of
> WW2, after the Holocaust.

Some people think of war as paperwork. They are unable to comprehend what happens to people caught up in the war. My Dad spent much of his time in combat. And what he said about it wasn't pretty. Artillery barrages, with heads flying, limbs flying, the terror, Stalin's Organ the wonderful rocket launcher. He also said that human life has no meaning whatsoever. People are worth no more than ants. And of course there are the torturous years spent in the Soviet Gulag. War sucks. Some people like to glorify it.