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From: hood@homxa.UUCP (Ron Hood)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: World War II
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Date: Thu, 2-May-85 14:48:03 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  2 14:48:03 1985
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The Presidents visit to Europe seems to have brought on a bit of WW II
nostalgia where we sit back and argue about the dastardly deeds of the
Germans.  While contemplating our righteous roll in the war I suddenly
realized that we have the honor of being the only country which has used
an atomic bomb on peoples - not once, but twice.  Now of course it was
only the enemy, and if we hadn't used the bombs a lot of our boys would
have died instead, but the fact is that we blew up a lot of people - mostly
civilians.  We also had our own home grown concentration camps here in 
the states for all those slanty-eyed types who were obviously here to
spy on us (the American citizenship was part of their cover).  

None of this has much to do with whether or not the President should visit
the graves of some German soldiers, but I was surprised how easy it is to
absolve the US of any wrong doing in the war and yet still remember
Germanys sins.  I guess we have two things going for us:

	1) We won.  That proves that we were right and gives
	us the opportunity to tell the story our way.

	2) We had good reasons for doing what we did whereas the
	Germans were all a bunch of savages and killed people
	only because they wanted to (sickos!).

I wonder what the Japanese-Americans have to say about the Presidents visit?

Ron