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The Germans had some choice names for the Shermans, like "Ronson" because it would light every time. Or "Tommie Cookers", referring to the Shermans used by the Brits. Then there was the famous remark by the German tanker who said something to the effect that their Panthers could kill our...

Not only that BB, but disgust and disapproval aren't basic feelings, like mad-sad-glad and fear, but are instead reactions based on feelings. Typically disgust towards or disapproval of homosexuality would be reactions based on fear, or in some cases anger.

If you look you will see that there have been 61 views of your post. So if you wanted to show it, you have done so, but as AlSalam pointed out, you didn't ask for discussion so your charge that the people on this board are only interested in American History is without merit.

Well Ken, I would ask what you mean by "disagree" and to some extent what you mean by "disapprove". Sexuality is a personal thing for all of us. I don't require your agreement or approval of my sexuality in any way or form that I can imagine. If by "disagree" you mean that you personally do...

Homophobia is not necessarily the fear of homosexuals themselves, it is instead usually the fear someone may have as to their own sexuality. When a person is overly vociferous in his or her aversion to homosexuality, if they use a lot of perjorative terms in describing homosexuals, etc. It does...

Hours? Really? They debated for whole hours? Actually, it was debated for much more than hours. The Navy, which was much more aware of American industrial might was very much against war with America and Britain. The Navy knew that victory was impossible, however the Army had control of...

That's all fine, but you made a statement that Japanese leadership didn't think a bomb hit Hiroshima and I showed where according to Japanese sources that were there that you were mistaken. Could it be perhaps that you were actually wrong? <edit>

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The Navy minister received a flash report from the Kure Naval Station near Hiroshima that a single plane had dropped a bomb that detonated over the city at "an altitude of 500 or 600 meters, and that "the concussion was beyond imagination and demolished practically every house in the city."...

As Jayem already pointed out the first bomb, the one that hit Hiroshima, wasn't enough to convince the Japanese to surrender under the Potsdam terms. It took a second bomb to get the Emperor to intervene and call for surrender. IOW, knowing this it is extremely unlikely that a demonstration...

I guess I missed the insults. Had the US not dropped the bombs the war would have continued. Every day Allied POWS were dying by the thousands being starved to death by their captors. It was estimated that millions of Japanese civilians would have perished in an invasion of the Home Islands...

So? I don't think they should have executed any Japanese after the war since they didn't do anything to Hirohito, who was up to his elbows in Chinese blood.

This is interesting. Earlier you claimed that Japanese leaders would mislead foreigners in saying that they apologized for atrocities, but that they didn't really mean it. Do you find deceit to be an honorable trait? I don't believe these men who made these apologies over the past 65...

They weren't out of resources, but war weariness was definitely setting in. The US had already tested the bomb at the Trinity Site in NM.

<edit> I have no problem recognizing bad things that my country has done in the past. Niether does your government. That is why Japan is what it is today; they have renounced aggressive war. If all countries atoned for the past as well as Japan the world would be a much better place. In...

<edit> If you have e perspective regarding the justification of the US dropping bombs on Japan from an historical context, that is the subject of this thread. The Japan you enjoy today has little in common with the Japan that murdered 10 million Chinese, mostly civilians, mostly in cold blood...

Sorry, but that isn't correct, among the multitudes, especially in Galilee most were illiterate. It is common knowledge that the spoken word, oral tradition as it were, was the mainstream means for spreading knowledge. Sure the leaders of the various groups may have scrolls of Torah, usually...

Are you really trying to equate a factory worker with a slave?

Since this is a History forum, we should endeavor to be accurate. There is no right given to the states to leave the Union by the Constitution. At the time of the Civil War, when the Confederate flag was adopted, there most certainly was no slavery in the North.