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From: ray@rochester.UUCP (Ray Frank)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Orphaned Response
Message-ID: <11638@rochester.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 14-Sep-85 10:47:28 EDT
Article-I.D.: rocheste.11638
Posted: Sat Sep 14 10:47:28 1985
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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
> 					...harpo!inmet!porges
> 					...hplabs!sri-unix!cca!ima!inmet!porges
> 					...yale-comix!ima!inmet!porges

C'mon spit it out, what are you inferring?  You said "Not that I exactly....."
what do you mean, you're not sure who's side you would have been on during
the war?  Perhaps you're just non-committal.


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