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Old 2nd Jun 2015, 19:38
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Danny42C
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Not to mention that (pre-Bomb), it was soberly estimated that the coming invasion of Japan (mounted from Okinawa ?) would cost a million (Allied forces) lives, most of which would be American, and the rest British Empire (including, very possibly, yours truly). The Japanese home armies would have to be destroyed to the last man (as we knew from experience all round SE Asia in the last few years). Japanese civilian casualties would be horrendous, as the conquest of Okinawa had just shown.

All this must be put in the balance against the terrible consequences of the Bomb in Japan. And, to remind ourselves, they did start it (at Pearl Harbor); so when all's said and done, they were responsible for their own misfotune.

That there are people (including, it would seem, some Associated Press editors and caption writers), who are still unaware of the distinction between the word "gay" (in the old, happy "toujours gai" sense) and the modern re-worked meaning, makes one despair. Was it for this that we have had compulsory elementary education in the Western world these last 100 years?

Danny42C