Our town in the Des Moines Register
Last Wednesday my uncle, wife, and I were interviewed by John Carlson of the Des Moines Register to talk about the recent projects that have been taking place around town. For you out of towners, this article, published Friday, will give you an idea of what's been going on around here.
The article was pretty good, considering the usual bias supplied by the DM Redstar (usually from the editorials). John Carlson is a good writer, not a typical Gannett-oid.
Anyway, enjoy the article.
The article was pretty good, considering the usual bias supplied by the DM Redstar (usually from the editorials). John Carlson is a good writer, not a typical Gannett-oid.
Anyway, enjoy the article.
posted by bgunzy at 9/15/2007 09:23:00 PM
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Thu, 20 Sep 2007 22:53:12 -0700 (PDT)
jbaxter@choicemaker.net
Jim,
I ran across your post about peaceniks opposing the a-bomb on http://thesouthofiowa.blogspot.com/. I was wondering why you posted it there since it didn't have anything to do with the blog's subject.
I was impressed with your writing, and I am impressed with your service record. I'd love to hear about your experiences in the Marines sometime.
I followed the link on your name back to your website. http://www.choicemaker.net/
I, too, live in California, although I am up in Petaluma. Like you I have a high school teaching credential and I've also been an extra in major motion pictures.
I did some research about the Japanese surrender and I found the following quotes about the atom bomb, and I'm wondering what you think about them:
"...the Japanese were ready to surrender and it wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing."
--President Eisenhower in Newsweek magazine, 11/11/63, recalling his meeting with Secretary of War Henry Stimson
"It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan . The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender because of the effective sea blockade and the successful bombing with conventional weapons.
--Admiral William D. Leahy
(Chief of Staff to Presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman)
“The use of the atomic bomb revolts my soul”
Former President Herbert Hoover, August 8, 1945
"I told MacArthur of my memorandum of mid-May 1945 to Truman, that peace could be had with Japan by which our major objectives would be accomplished. MacArthur said that was correct and that we would have avoided all of the losses, the Atomic bomb, and the entry of Russia into Manchuria ."
-- Hoover ’s diary entry of a May 1946 meeting with General Douglas MacArthur
"When I asked General MacArthur about the decision to drop the bomb, I was surprised to learn he had not even been consulted. What, I asked, would his advice have been? He replied that he saw no military justification for the dropping of the bomb. The war might have ended weeks earlier, he said, if the United States had agreed, as it later did anyway, to the retention of the institution of the emperor."
--Norman Cousins, consultant to General MacArthur during the American occupation of Japan , The Pathology of Power, pg. 65, 70-71.
"Based on a detailed investigation of all the facts and supported by the testimony of the surviving Japanese leaders involved, it is the Survey's opinion that certainly prior to 31 December 1945 and in all probability prior to 1 November 1945, Japan would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped, even if Russia had not entered the war, and even if no invasion had been planned or contemplated."
Conclusion of the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey, written by and repeatedly supported by Paul Nitze, who would later be a U.S. arms negotiator under President Reagan
Are these the peaceniks you are writing about?
Scott
remerk@sbcglobal.net
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