In a message dated 8/31/03 1:14:02 PM !!!First Boot!!!, aprildan@geyer.com writes: > When Truman > authorized the dropping of "little man" and "fat Boy" on Hiroshima and > Nagasaki it was a means to an End. No one said Truman was a bad man and > that he should be brought up on war crimes charges. Oh it has been said, frequently, but trying to see the cost of lives taking all the 'small' islands and looking at fighting thru the "home" land. I have to wonder which is worse horror over days, months and years or in one fell swoop. That aside I have to agree with you. Almost everyone of my ancestors alive then moved from the state they had been in many ending in Texas and all refusing to talk about it, Eliz