To this day, the vicious reality of aerial bombing is lost to most people in the United States, a military operation devoid of human feeling, a news event, a statistic, a fact to be taken in quickly and forgotten. Indeed, thats how it is for those who drop bombs, for people like me, a bombardier sitting in the Plexiglass nose of a B-17, operating my bombsight, observing flashes of light below as the bombs hit, but seeing no human beings, hearing no screams, seeing no blood, totally unaware that down below there might be children dying, rendered blind, with arms or legs severed. ––Howard Zinn, from THE BOMB, an account of Zinns service as a bombardier during WWII more info on the book here: bit.ly/1xJa6Vl
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