Status Updates From Armageddon in Retrospect

“The occupying Russians, when they discovered that we were Americans, embraced us and congratulated us on the complete desolation our planes had wrought…but I felt then as I feel now, that I would have given my life to save Dresden for the World’s generations to come. That is how everyone should feel about every city on Earth”.

"The killing of children - jerry children, or jap children, or whatever enemies the future may hold for us - can never be justified.
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it's not easy to rationalize the stamping out of vineyards where the grapes of wrath are stored when gathering up babies in bushel baskets or helping a man to dig where he thinks his wife may be buried."