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From: porges@inmet.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Orphaned Response
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Date: Fri, 6-Sep-85 17:53:00 EDT
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[Is bug?]

>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.

	Not only was Pearl Harbor a (mostly) military target, but in 1941
Hawaii was not officially part of the United States, being rather a 
territory that the US captured in the Spanish-American War, a war that
is not currently considered one of our most moral moments.  Furthermore,
fewer people were killed in the sneak attack on the fleet than would
have been killed if those same ships had been sunk at sea, since most
of the crew members weren't on the ships but ashore.  Not that I exactly
take the side of the Japanese in WWII...
					-- Don Porges
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