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Curtis LeMay’s Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun

Today is the sixtieth anniversary of the first American firebombing attack on Japan. On the evening of March 9, 1945, 325 B-29 bombers took off from their bases in the Marianas, the first planes arriving over Tokyo just after midnight on March 10 where, over a three hour period, they dropped 1,665 tons of incendiary bombs...

The reasons for my interest in (some might say, obsession with) the night of March 9-10, 1945 are varied and complex. The simplest explanation might be that the firebombing of Japan—which continued for over five months (from March 9 to August 15, 1945)—is, compared to the atomic bomb attacks, little known outside Japan. Yet nearly half the built-up areas of sixty-four cities were totally destroyed while (according to the estimates of the United States Strategic Bombing Survey) 330,000 people were killed, 476,000 injured, 2.5 million buildings destroyed, and 8.5 million people made homeless.

ACLU Sues Over Mormon Lease on Land

A clash over the federal government's right to lease a national historic site in Wyoming to the Mormon Church moved to court Wednesday as the American Civil Liberties Union filed suit, arguing that the government violated the constitutional bar against endorsing religion.

The battle — the latest over the presence of religion in national parks and national historic sites — centers on the Martin's Cove historic site, 55 miles southwest of Casper.

In 1856, 150 Mormon pioneers on their way to Salt Lake City died in a blizzard near Martin's Cove, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has sought control of the area for many years.

But the site has a broader relevance to American westward migration. It is on a route where four major trails converged. Half a million settlers traveled those trails between 1841 and 1869 in search of farmland in Oregon and gold in California as well as religious freedom in Utah. The trails are administered by the National Park Service, in cooperation with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management...

One of the plaintiffs in the suit, Susan M. Wozny of Laramie, Wyo., who is not Mormon, said that when she visited the site in August, she was repeatedly asked by Mormon guides about her religious affiliation and was barred from an area of the trail. She said she was told that Mormons had died there and it was "sacred" and "hallowed ground."

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