OPINION:
In “A U.S. Navy veteran recalls the bombing of Japan” (Web, Aug. 5) Christopher S. Lehman Sr. writes that August 6 “marks an important milestone for many Americans. It is the 81st anniversary of a day of infamy — when a president of the United States chose to deliberately target innocent civilians in a war.”
I am 93 and served in the Korean War. My brother, who served aboard the USS New York BB34 at Iowa Jima and another vessel, manning a machine gun in an airplane overhead, would have assumed such a statement had issued from the mouth of the bloodthirsty Gen. Hideki Tojo rather than a metaphoric scrambler of soothsaying and quack quarterbacking.
Can we depend on Mr. Lehman’s bureaucratic, rubber-stamped condemnation of — Lord, spare us! — imminent nuclear re-enactments?
War is hell!
ALAN T. MCLAUGHLIN
Fairfax, Virginia
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