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From: tan@ihlpg.UUCP (Bill Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Orphaned Response
Message-ID: <1178@ihlpg.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 4-Sep-85 12:36:47 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep  4 12:36:47 1985
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> >[Unknown]
> >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.
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> [Also Unknown]
> 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.
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The two Aleutian islands taken by the Japanese were uninhabited.  They
never bombed Alaska or California.  Perhaps you are confusing the movie
1941 with reality.  Even Pearl Harbor was only an attack on a military
base, not an invasion or an attack on civilian targets.  Civilian
casualties at Pearl Harbor were very small.  No living American has
experienced an invasion of America.
-- 
Bill Tanenbaum - AT&T Bell Labs - Naperville IL  ihnp4!ihlpg!tan