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...years, but in this day and age, such hatred is difficult for me to comprehend. I cannot imagine a loathing so deep and all consuming. Even more perplexing is the bombers' belief that they will meet their creator in heaven. What if they find that they end up in hell and that their creator is the devil himself? Mayr Malool Lake Placid, Florida...
...writer persevered - and became one of the Pacific's best-known novelists. Wendt's 2003 epic The Mango's Kiss dramatizes the encounter between a village girl, Pele, loosely based on Wendt's grandmother, and a Scottish novelist called Leonard Roland Stenson. Is he a sympathetic character? "Hell, yes," says Wendt. "In the novel, he leaves his library of books to the young Samoan woman - it didn't actually happen in real life." Instead, metaphorically at least, he bequeathed them to a nation...
...killed immediately in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, with many more dying later from the effects of radiation--but they saved lives too. When he heard the news of Hiroshima, writer Paul Fussell, then a 21-year-old second lieutenant leading a rifle platoon in France and mentally preparing for the hell that an invasion of Japan was bound to be, thought, "We were going to live. We were going to grow up to adulthood after...
...again? For 60 years the sense of power that goes with having a nuclear capability has been tempered by another emotion: naked fear of the horror that nuclear weapons can cause. From John Hersey's heartbreaking journalism for the New Yorker in 1946, through films, books and documentaries, the hell that was Hiroshima has helped persuade us to stay our hand...
Over There does its job--but only to a point. As Bochco promises, there is no editorializing beyond the standard war-is-hell variety. (There have been far more pointed comments on the war on FX's big-network brother, Fox. Arrested Development has satirized the war repeatedly, while 24 explored wartime torture in excruciating detail.) Any partisan objections will probably have to do with what it omits: for doves, big-picture considerations like the phantom WMD; for hawks, any attention to good news from Iraq...