62 YEARS AGO TODAY

[mike furline]

Good thing we had some real men in office during the glorious Nam war and not one of those namby pamby liberals. Otherwise think what could have happened, say if we made peace early and only had 580 killed instead of 58,000 and if John McCain and others had not spent years as POWs. Some of those wimps might have even been a little concerned about the hundreds of thousands of civilains we killed there. It is wonderful that we had real war heroes like Nixon to lead and inspire us to stay the course. Yea, Mike I think peace in WW II was a little different than Vietnam. I have seen movies, and read books about Pearl Harbor. Somehow I seem to have missed all those on when Vietnam attacked the U S. There was a thing LBJ referred to at the Gulf of Tonkin, and a good ole boy like that woudn't lie to us would he? Do you have the casualty figures from that Tonkin Battle; I seem to have mislaid them? I'm tired of writing about this, think I'll get back to playing with airplanes.

Bill,

I hope you didn't misunderstand what I was trying to say. We were attacked by the Japanese and wanted a decisive victory. Some type of finality.
My comment about VietNam was intended to mean basically what you have written here.

[Django]

I've learned a few things in this thread, so thank you all.

One of the bombed cities was actually a secondary target, correct? ( I don't remember which one). Was the primary a more "military" target than the secondary which did get bombed instead?

And for discussion's sake, I've seen a few posts on dropping it on the military command or the emperor... if so, then who would surrender to us at that point? With no real leadership left, wouldn't that ensure that every soldier and possibly civilians would take up the final fight to the death for killing their beloved emperor? Then an invasion still would have been required...