In a message dated 5/30/02 10:48:40 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
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> All war is barbaric, but much of that barbarism is meant to be psychological.
> To suggest that the American and Allied armies were not targeting women and
> children is to completely misrepresent history. 85,000 to 100,000 Japanese
> civilians died in the firebombing of Tokyo, as did 135,000 German civilians
> in the firebombing of Dresden, each event conducted in the span of one
> night.
> Ultimately 500,000 Japanese civilians and 1 million German civilians died as
> a result of deliberate American and Allied attacks against their
> populations.
>
>

Facts not well known to most Americans.  I am surprised that Wirt's Japanese
civilian death toll is as low as it is.  If I remember correctly, Nagasaki
and Hiroshima both resulted in lower civilian death counts than the Tokyo
bombing but that's still three huge deadly events.

Wayne Boyer

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