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Northwood NH News

July 16, 2014

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Letter To The Editor

Learning through Service

 

I recently heard the late U.S. Representative Shirley Chisholm quoted as saying that “service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.”  This idea has a special resonance for me, maybe because I attended a high school that awarded “service to the school” awards, in addition to those that were handed out for academic and athletic achievement.  So, while living in Northwood, it has been my privilege to serve in various ways.

 

Most recently, I have been elected to serve on the Town Budget Committee and appointed to serve on the Conservation Commission.  And while this provides an opportunity to “give back,” as they say, it has also afforded me an opportunity to learn a lot about the town and its functioning.

 

These learning opportunities began back in the 1988 when my daughter attended the Northwood Center (pre-) School presided over for so long and so well by Karen Anderson.  Johanna and I split a chair on the Board of Directors, and I learned more about the value of early education.

 

In 1998, I joined the Northwood Chamber of Commerce Board, serving with Russ Eldridge, Carol Lavigne, Colleen Pingree and Rose Stevens, among others.  And while it ultimately went out of existence, while it lasted, it did some good things: a monthly newsletter and a cataloguing of the many, many enterprises – in addition to antique stores – in Northwood.

 

In 2002, I helped Mary Faucher and the Northwood School Building Committee present their plans for the school addition.  In 2004, I worked on the clean-up crew during the construction of the Northwood Congregational Church.  And in 2005, I was appointed by the Selectmen to serve on the Community Resources Committee.

 

I will take what I’ve learned from all this to serve Northwood as your Representative.

 

Tom Chase

Candidate for

Rockingham District 1

 


 

Letter To The Editor

 

To the good citizens of Northwood,

Just got back from the stonewall project for the Northwood Beach on Northwood Lake.

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In early June I received a letter from the selectmen telling me how much they appreciate the wall we have been building since Fall 2011.

 

They asked if they came up with some volunteers, maybe we could finish the project up. My brother Mark and I set up a schedule for every other weekend. Mark and I started a day early to reset the strings and get things started.

 

The first Saturday and Sunday, Tim, Ron, and Billy the Kid showed up, and with the help of my brother, started in on continuing what we had done in the past two-and-a-half years.

 

On our second weekend of work Tim had us restocked with fieldstone from Mead Field, Jimmy and Charlie loaded and moved the rock. Tim, Mark and I did some serious building on our third weekend today. Tim had us restocked with ledge rock from Jamie Johnson’s field again. Jimmy and Charlie moved it to the beach.

 

This weekend there was Tim, Mark, Ron, Joe, Mailman Mike, and his kid. Billy the Kid rode by on his bicycle. We said, “Hey.” He said he’d be back, but we didn’t see him again. We built some serious wall this weekend. I got (sic) a great crew.

 

On a scale of one to ten, ten being difficult, this is turning into an eight. But we are at the beach. The neighbors are cool. Everyone is having fun.

 

Dan Schroth Piermarocchi

 


 

Northwood Recreation Update

 

The Northwood Recreation Department is sponsoring Soccer Camp.  The camp will be run by the Seacoast United Soccer Club providing players the opportunity to receive high-level soccer coaching from a team of coaching experts.  Each day includes individual foot skills, technical drills, tactical practices, small-sided games, and coached scrimmages. 

 

This week long camp, August 11th – August 15th, is available to kids playing ages 4 through high school. The 4-6 year old campers will attend from 9:00 am – 10:30 am. The 6 – high school age would attend from 9:00 am –12:00 pm. The cost for 4-6 year olds is $90.00, 6 years old – high school is $120.00. 

 

Registrations can by placed online at www.seacoastunited.com/townpartners/. Visit northwoodnh.org for additional registration information and information about these programs.  Details can be found in our Brochure on the website or contact the Recreation Department at [email protected] or 942-5586 x209 with questions.

 


 

August 6, 1945: A Day Of Infamy, Indeed

By Michael Faiella

 

A recent edition of The Suncook Sun featured a “Veterans Corner” article by Richard Doucet defending—both militarily and morally-- the US bombing of Hiroshima, whose anniversary is now approaching.

 

The article presents a view held by numerous Americans today but not by US World War II military leaders. They apparently believed that dropping atomic bombs on Japan’s cities was not necessary, not wise, and not right. The book “The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb,” by Gary Alperovitz, provides a wealth of quotations from prominent military figures of the time.

 

For example, Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Fleet, stated in a 1945 speech, “The Japanese had, in fact, already sued for peace before the atomic age was announced to the world with the destruction of Hiroshima.” Consequently, “the atomic bomb played no decisive part, from a purely military standpoint, in the defeat of Japan.”

 

Likewise, in 1946 Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr., Commander of the U.S. Third Fleet, said publicly that the “first atomic bomb was an unnecessary experiment. . . . It was a mistake to ever drop it.”

 

Rear Admiral L. Lewis Strauss, who was special assistant to the Secretary of the Navy from 1944 to 1945, and who later became chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, said on more than one occasion that the atomic bomb “was not necessary to bring the war to a successful conclusion” because “the Japanese were ready to capitulate.”

 

Ernest J King, Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Fleet and Chief of Naval Operations, opposed the bombing because, “had we been willing to wait, the effective naval blockade would, in the course of time, have starved the Japanese into submission through lack of oil, rice, medicines, and other essential materials.”

 

Henry H. “Hap” Arnold, Commanding General of the U.S. Army Air Forces, said in a military history interview, “When the question comes up of whether we use the atomic bomb or not, my view is that the Air Force will not oppose the use of the bomb, and they will deliver it effectively if the Commander-in-Chief decides to use it. But it is not necessary to use it in order to conquer the Japanese without the necessity of a land invasion.”

 

In September of 1945, the General Curtis Le May, who headed the Twenty-First Bomber Command, said in an interview, “The war would have been over in two weeks without the Russians entering and without the atomic bomb….The atomic bomb had nothing to do with the end of the war at all.”

 

The U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey in its 1946 report concluded that “Japan would have surrendered, even if the atomic bomb had not been dropped, even if Russia had not entered the war, even if no invasion had been planned or contemplated.”

 

Army Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall advised Assistant Secretary of War John J. McCloy to tell President Truman that the decision to drop the bomb was a political, “not a military decision,” that it was “not a military necessity. It is not a military problem.”

 

When General Dwight Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, was informed by Secretary of War Henry Stimson that the bomb was to be used, he wrote that he “voiced to him my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives.”

 

Even General Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers in Asia, thought the use of the atomic bomb was a bad idea, according to his aide Norman Cousins: “When I asked General MacArthur about the decision to drop the bomb, I was surprised to learn he had not even been consulted. What, I asked, would his advice have been? He replied that he saw no military justification for the dropping of the bomb. The war might have ended weeks earlier, he said, if the United States had agreed, as it later did anyway, to the retention of the institution of the emperor.” 

 

General MacArthur’s pilot described him as “appalled and distressed “ by the bombing. President Nixon said MacArthur once told him “it was a tragedy the bomb was ever exploded...[because] the military objective should always be limited damage to noncombatants.”

 

President Hoover reported that MacArthur told him that if we had taken up Japan’s numerous peace offers, “our major objectives would be accomplished...and that we would have avoided all of the losses, the Atomic bomb, and the entry of Russia into Manchuria.”

 

Brigadier General Carter W. Clarke, Mac Arthur’s military secretary in Tokyo declared that “the atomic bomb neither induced the Emperor’s decision to surrender nor had any effect on the outcome of the war....We didn’t need to do it; we used them as an experiment for two atomic bombs.”

 

Finally, Admiral William D. Leahy, President Truman’s Chief of Staff, and the top official who presided over meetings of both the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Combined U.S.-U.K. Chiefs of Staff, said

 

“[T]he use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender. . . .[I]n being the first to use it, we . . . adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. I was not taught to make war in that fashion, and wars cannot be won by destroying women and children.”

 


 

 

 











 
 

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