{"id":4051,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:06","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4051"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:09:53","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:09:53","slug":"too-many","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/t-poems\/too-many\/","title":{"rendered":"Too Many"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Too Many<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on August 11, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nMost dreadful end to man&#8217;s most dreadful age<br \/>\nA quarter million people ceased to be<br \/>\nThe innocent who paid for nations&#8217; rage<br \/>\nIs that too high a price for liberty?<\/p>\n<p>Who has the right to weigh these dreadful tolls<br \/>\nWho can decide which legions have to die<br \/>\nWhen men assume such vast inhuman roles<br \/>\nIs all that&#8217;s left to us the need to cry?<\/p>\n<p>I cannot say if Truman&#8217;s act was right<br \/>\nHow many would have died another way?<br \/>\nBut since those bombs were built we&#8217;ve lived in night<br \/>\nThose mushroom clouds a blight on every day<\/p>\n<p>Two planes, two crews, too many deaths to count<br \/>\nAll war&#8217;s an evil we cannot surmount<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nOn the 6th and ninth of August 1945 USAAF bombers dropped the only nuclear<br \/>\nbombs so far used in anger, and approximately 250,000 people died. The other<br \/>\nside of the balance is that it brought an end to a war that had killed almost<br \/>\n50 million people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Too Many by cricketjeff on August 11, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Most dreadful end to man&#8217;s most dreadful age A quarter million people ceased to be The innocent who paid for nations&#8217; rage Is that too high a price for liberty? Who has the right to weigh these dreadful tolls Who can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9748,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4051","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7458,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4051\/revisions\/7458"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}