Still simmering on. Hard to play catch-up but I'm glad Don Firth did his post. Oh, and thanks to Bugpuss for the link to "On Hiroshima and Nagasaki." I only remember the ice cream party that my folks and their friends had on VJ day, and how depressed some of the wives looked when they realized they'd have to give up their professional jobs and return to good housekeeping.

Whatever can we do with George W. blabbermouth? He occasionally makes some sane statements and then blows it all away with "Crusades" and "dead or alive." This is the man who is supposed to provide the leadership to form an anti-terrorist coalition of Christain, Moslem, (add your favorite missing religious group) states. Bizarre...:-()