Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: $Revision: 1.6.2.16 $; site inmet.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!yale!inmet!nrh
From: nrh@inmet.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Orphaned Response
Message-ID: <7800411@inmet.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 31-Aug-85 17:47:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: inmet.7800411
Posted: Sat Aug 31 17:47:00 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 4-Sep-85 05:28:54 EDT
References: <1392@uwmacc.UUCP>
Lines: 16
Nf-ID: #R:uwmacc:-139200:inmet:7800411:177600:657
Nf-From: inmet!nrh    Aug 31 17:47:00 1985


>/* Written  2:32 pm  Aug 12, 1985 by SCIRTP!todd in inmet:net.politics */
>
>Since no living American has experienced an invasion of America,
>we cannot expect them to fully comprehend the repercussions of
>war in Main Street, USA. While I don't claim to know the extent
>of those repercussions, I am sure any attack on America (which
>if non-nuclear at first, would quickly turn nuclear) would
>destroy the lives of millions.

My understanding was that during WWII the Japanese took territory
on an American island off the coast of Alaska, and bombed both
Alaska and California.  

Perhaps you should not be so quick with the "no living American" 
stuff.