[lit-ideas] Re: Do we still have Grants and Shermans?
- From: John Wager <john.wager1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:45:15 -0500
Lawrence Helm wrote:
I’m not surprised that an ROTC instructor said that. Where was he
from, do you remember?
I don't know where the instructor was from; I remember him being a Lt.
Col. from the south somewhere, though. The school was the University of
Florida, 20 miles from where I went to high school, and where there was
no "civil war" in any textbooks. There WAS a "war between the states" in
my high school textbooks, just as you would expect in Florida in the
early 1960's.
There are many ways of "targeting" civilians. Sherman did burn towns and
crops, in a way for the same reasons we dropped incendiary bombs on most
Japanese cities--To burn down the housing of civilian workers. (Of
course it wasn't the U.S.'s fault if the civilians just happened to be
IN the wooden houses when we dropped the bombs, any more than it was
Sherman's fault for killing civilians when he burned towns.)
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John Wager j.wager@xxxxxxxxxxx
Forest Park, IL, USA
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