Jeff In Milwaukee
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Wed Jan-06-10 11:24 AM
Response to Reply #6 |
| 8. Beats my worst "Business Travel Nightmare" story by a mile (nt) |
| -Japanese survivor of both U.S. atomic bomb attacks dies at 93 |
sabra |
Jan-06-10 09:57 AM |
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RIP |
niyad |
Jan-06-10 10:01 AM |
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Farewell brave one. n/t |
FourScore |
Jan-06-10 10:04 AM |
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What is brave about him? |
naaman fletcher |
Jan-06-10 11:01 AM |
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guy seems like a dope to me... |
naaman fletcher |
Jan-06-10 11:03 AM |
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Of course... |
kenfrequed |
Jan-06-10 11:27 AM |
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I think a guy who was nuked twice gets to say "you can't understand" about the process, honestly. nt |
Posteritatis |
Jan-06-10 05:32 PM |
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Jan-06-10 11:42 AM |
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Luck finally ran out for this gentle soul. |
RedCloud |
Jan-06-10 10:49 AM |
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So did the survivors of Japan's rampage throughout Asia. |
proteus_lives |
Jan-07-10 02:51 AM |
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He doesn't look like a rampager |
izquierdista |
Jan-07-10 09:12 AM |
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Pretty amazing considering his exposure to a host of things. nt |
WriteDown |
Jan-06-10 11:02 AM |
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Wow, talk about unlucky. |
krispos42 |
Jan-06-10 11:02 AM |
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Beats my worst "Business Travel Nightmare" story by a mile (nt) |
Jeff In Milwaukee |
Jan-06-10 11:24 AM |
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Inspiring. Thanks. |
Faryn Balyncd |
Jan-06-10 11:33 AM |
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Wow! Nuked twice! |
JVS |
Jan-06-10 11:44 AM |
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amazing story, horrible nightmare |
Demeter |
Jan-06-10 01:50 PM |
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And he lived to 93. |
drm604 |
Jan-06-10 05:29 PM |
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The ultimate bad week, I can only imagine his PTSD must have been off the scale. |
Uncle Joe |
Jan-06-10 05:40 PM |
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Was the atomic bomb known to cause stomach cancer? |
marshall |
Jan-06-10 05:58 PM |
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The nuclear tests done after Hiroshima were many, many times more powerful |
cowcommander |
Jan-06-10 06:27 PM |
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That's because they were Uranium bombs and Uranium is not very radioactive compared to |
Zynx |
Jan-06-10 09:44 PM |
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One was uranium, one was plutonium. |
hunter |
Jan-07-10 10:56 AM |
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Your response is devoid of historical accuracy on a breath taking scale. |
grantcart |
Jan-07-10 01:57 PM |
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The U-235 bomb was a certainty. The plutonium bomb was an experiment. |
hunter |
Jan-07-10 06:08 PM |
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"This is proved both imperially and anecdotally." |
ZombieHorde |
Jan-08-10 04:02 AM |
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I guess it gets everybody sooner or later |
marshall |
Jan-07-10 09:39 AM |
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It can |
izquierdista |
Jan-07-10 09:15 AM |
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RIP Mr. Yamaguchi. |
Vidar |
Jan-06-10 09:19 PM |
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Jan-06-10 10:10 PM |
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Good for him. |
Socal31 |
Jan-07-10 01:30 AM |
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The fact that a thread like this gets responses like this is the reason I have lost respect for DU. |
Bonobo |
Jan-07-10 09:21 AM |
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Why would you expect DU to be a congregating place for apologists for Japan's WWII genocide? |
Romulox |
Jan-07-10 09:59 AM |
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So well put. Thanks for confirming. nt |
Bonobo |
Jan-07-10 10:02 AM |
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You want to condemn people morally AND put no effort into it whatever? |
Romulox |
Jan-07-10 10:05 AM |
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It is America that is on the high horse. |
Bonobo |
Jan-07-10 10:09 AM |
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Actually, "blame" is the childish concept. I refer to cause intersecting with effect. |
Romulox |
Jan-07-10 10:15 AM |
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I will not use this thread for that type of discussion. |
Bonobo |
Jan-07-10 10:18 AM |
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LOL. Thanks for confirming my hunch. You can't bring yourself to admit it. |
Romulox |
Jan-07-10 10:22 AM |
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Whatever. You are unable to see anything beyond your own jingoism. nt |
Bonobo |
Jan-07-10 10:24 AM |
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My avatar was an upside down flag for 6 months. I am no jingoist. |
Romulox |
Jan-07-10 10:27 AM |
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I have admitted they committed horrible crimes. So did we. |
Bonobo |
Jan-07-10 10:30 AM |
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The US didn't committ a genocide in WWII. Not all things are equivalent. |
Romulox |
Jan-07-10 10:39 AM |
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He never condemned the US. He condemned nuclear weapons. |
Bonobo |
Jan-07-10 10:41 AM |
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Right. But a truly wise man would've condemned WAR as well |
Romulox |
Jan-07-10 10:49 AM |
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Is it worth pointing out how you resist quantifying Japanese WWII civilian slaughter? nt |
Romulox |
Jan-07-10 11:05 AM |
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I have done nothing of the sort except in your imagination. |
Bonobo |
Jan-07-10 11:21 AM |
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Then I invite you to do so one more time. |
Romulox |
Jan-07-10 11:25 AM |
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How could I possibly come up with a number? |
Bonobo |
Jan-07-10 11:32 AM |
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Historians have not been reluctant to come up with a number: 20-30 million civilians dead. |
Romulox |
Jan-07-10 11:38 AM |
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Fine, let me leave our conversation with this little tidbit. |
Bonobo |
Jan-07-10 11:49 AM |
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I largely agree with you as to this point. |
Romulox |
Jan-07-10 11:56 AM |
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Imagine posting article after article about the suffering of "ordinary Germans" |
Romulox |
Jan-07-10 10:08 AM |
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Ridiculous. Your rhetoric is now officially out of control. |
Bonobo |
Jan-07-10 10:11 AM |
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Right. It would be just like a story about an "ordinary German" who died at 93 |
Romulox |
Jan-07-10 10:18 AM |
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Keep defending the A-bomb. I am saying it is classless of you to spit on graves, that's all. |
Bonobo |
Jan-07-10 10:22 AM |
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I'm defending CONTEXT and the FULL TRUTH, nothing more. nt |
Romulox |
Jan-07-10 10:25 AM |
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Great. Let me write your eulogy when YOU die. |
Bonobo |
Jan-07-10 10:36 AM |
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OK. nt |
Romulox |
Jan-07-10 11:03 AM |
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Agree totally - except |
bitchkitty |
Jan-07-10 10:49 AM |
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Providing the context of Japan's WWII genocide is NOT hate speech |
Romulox |
Jan-07-10 10:50 AM |
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I celebrate my hatreds for genocidal empires on a rotating basis... |
hunter |
Jan-07-10 11:07 AM |
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This thread is about Japan. I will gladly join you in condemning the US's war crimes |
Romulox |
Jan-07-10 11:23 AM |
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Wonder if this man had any choice words for the genocidal empire he lived in? |
Romulox |
Jan-07-10 09:44 AM |
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If you want to chase that chain to the beginning, it is here, 90 years earlier. |
Bonobo |
Jan-07-10 10:06 AM |
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Japan's genocide on the asian mainland is excused by the opium wars, HOW, exactly? |
Romulox |
Jan-07-10 10:10 AM |
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I will not be your college professor. Do your own research. |
Bonobo |
Jan-07-10 10:12 AM |
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Again, if the country in question was Germany, this would be easily identified |
Romulox |
Jan-07-10 10:32 AM |
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Of course not, now you are really twisting and manipulating my words beyond belief. |
Bonobo |
Jan-07-10 10:35 AM |
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I have no intention of manipulating your words. Just of providing context. |
Romulox |
Jan-07-10 11:02 AM |
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You omitted Japanese aggression during the Russian/Japanese War of 1905 |
grantcart |
Jan-07-10 01:34 PM |
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You might want to dig a little deeper into "Japanese atrocities" |
Art_from_Ark |
Jan-08-10 01:30 AM |
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The Japanese Imperial Army wasn't "pretty nasty", they commited acts of genocide |
wickerwoman |
Jan-08-10 01:59 AM |
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No, Mao Zedong didn't stage the Rape of Nanjing |
Art_from_Ark |
Jan-08-10 02:15 AM |
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I'm not here to defend Mao Zedong. |
wickerwoman |
Jan-08-10 02:36 AM |
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And I'm not here to defend the Imperial Army |
Art_from_Ark |
Jan-08-10 03:01 AM |
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But I believe you are, unintentionally, by confusing the issue. |
wickerwoman |
Jan-08-10 03:32 AM |
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Back to the story, rest in peace old man. |
miyazaki |
Jan-08-10 02:19 AM |
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