yes, but
...in the past the victors typically acknowledged--nay, trumpeted--the feats of arms by which the foe was brought low. When I was growing up nobody minced words about it: "Hell yes, we nuked the Nips," we would growl. "Wanna make something of it?" How modest and reticent as a people we have become when the Smithsonian seems content to leave the impression that the Empire of Japan threw in the obi after a series of demoralizing kitchen fires in Hiroshima and Nagasaki! Does their Apollo exhibit still mention the moon, I wonder?
cordially,
