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Reflections on THE NEW YORK TIMES Reflecting on V-J DAY

On Sunday, September 6, 2020, the NEW YORK TIMES published a special section on the 75 th  Anniversary of the ending of World War II, V-J DAY. Seemingly it was either edited, or inspired by that expert on combat, the actor Tom Hanks.   One article in the section caught this Blogger’s undivided attention; it was by an uber righteous and moral lecturer at    Cardiff University in Wales, UK, Anne I. Harrington. The article was about wicked America unleashing the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, killing all those Japanese civilians. Ninety American fly boys flew the mission to vaporize    Hiroshima; only one. Major Claude Eatherly expressed guilt. He expressed supreme guilt until he contracted throat cancer and could no longer express guilt.   The following is excerpted from Professor Harrington’s article. It grievously upset this Blogger, for obvious reasons. It is a liberal revision of History.   “In a 1961 interview with reporter Ronnie Dugger, Eatherly explained  that he was not conv