Comments from our Visitors

Jan. 6, 2004

Feb. 4, 2004

Jill Ray
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Hello,
I have only a comment. Your site is very impressive, it is imperative that truth be mingled with pride in our service men, sacrifices, and compassion. I believe you furnish all in well designed site...keep it up,,,

Feb. 7, 2004

Your photo galleries are amazing. What a marvelous collection. The entire website is a national treasure.

Again, thank you so much.

S. Francis

Rockford, IL

Jan. 6, 2004

I found your site while looking for more information on the Hans Bethe. I am in the midst of reading "Pandora's Keepers" by Brian Vandemark, and found out that at the time of the writing, he was the only living member of the group of 9 that Brian focuses on in the book. I was curious as to if he was still alive. I'll be back to look in more detail. This is a fantastic job, and kudos to all of you that have worked so hard to put this together.

Barb Garnier

Jan. 3, 2004

Monica

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Hi, I am in an AP United States History Class and I chose the Manhattan Project as my research paper topic not knowing anything about it. I just wanted to let you know that your website has been so helpful to me. I know that a lot of hard work goes into making something as good as this and it makes you feel good when you know that someone appreciates your efforts. However, I after taking in all this very helpful information I don't know which direction I should take. If you have any spare time to e-mail me back with some advice I'd really appreciate it. Thanks again for this great site it's very helpful!

Oct. 16, 2003

Robert Holder

TX, USA

Moreno Jr. High

Grade: 7 & 8

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I have found this site to be very effective in teaching 7 & 8th grade students about atomic structure, basic Chemistry and Physics. It works very well as an interdisciplinary unit also. This compilation of information yields an invaluable tool in providing students of these age groups research capability which is both informative, and complete as well as being a safe location which can be easily monitored in a classroom/lab setting. Thank you!

Sept. 29, 2003

Cris Vera

Utah Schools

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Dear Sirs,

Prior to checking your website I thought I knew a lot about the Manhattan Project. After I checked it out for six hours, I realized I didn't know anything about it. Your website is so complete it makes me feel like I am part of the Manhattan Project myself. One of the reasons I'm writing other than to congratulate you is the following; I am a school teacher and a fine scale modeler and for a long time I wanted to make a scale model of "Little Boy" "Fat Man" do you have a schematic-drawing of the two bombs that I can use to make my scale models? second, what was the original color of the two bombs prior to being deployed? I really appreciate your help. Again congratulations on your excellent website! regards. Cristian Vera.

Sept. 11, 2003

Deborah Royal Dwyer

Australia

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My father is one of the scientists in the photo of the Graphite Research Group, at the Met Lab, University of Chicago, in Photo P614. He is Dr. Joseph Royal, the very handsome fellow in the back row, second in from the left, with dark hair and moustache. He was born and grew up in Canada, in Manitoba, then went to the US for his PhD, which he received in 1940 from the University of California at Berkeley in physical chemistry and, before joining the Manhattan Project in Chicago, taught chemistry at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa. He became a naturalized American citizen to join the Manhattan Project. I am so amazed and overwhelmed to see this photo with my dad---he died in 1985. My mother is alive, living outside Chicago. They were married in December, 1945. We knew so little about what he did during the war years--he kept the secrets. After the war, he left science, perhaps because the use of the bomb was very traumatic--but eventually did research for the American Medical Association in Chicago, at a time when the AMA had research facilities. He then went to work at Argonne National Lab, in the Chemical Engineering Division.

I am overwhelmed with gratitude that your site should honor all the people who worked on the Manhattan Project. It is wonderful to see my dad in this photo, the young scientist with his peers at a time and place in his life I have always wondered about. Thank you. It means I can place him in that Graphite Research Group and find out more about what he did.

August 27, 2003

I was pleased to see that “Kodak and the Manhattan Project” has been listed in the “new” category in your web page. Fast work. In the listing I was in the Chemist category. Could that be changed to Chemical Engineer--my degrees are in that category. Recently I’ve spent time getting more familiar with your web site and I’m amazed at the amount of information that’s available. You have done a really fine job of collecting information and data on the Manhattan Project. Keep it up, because sources will be getting more difficult to find as those with first hand information continue to disappear. You have made a tremendous start in gathering the projects history in a single spot.

Dr. Robert Schrader

August 21, 2003

Thank you for your response. I am sorry to hear about Fred [Bock]. I found the web site to be quite informative. There is information captured there that would never have been captured without such a site. I saw that the restoration of the Enola Gay was completed recently and it will be on display in the new air museum in December. Such a tragic time in our history, but so many more lives were saved as a result of our actions, and it is amazing at how many don't understand that fact throughout the world. I talk to many high school students from all over the world every year because I am the vice-chairperson for the Rotary International Youth Exchange program in our district in New Jersey, and I am amazed at the skewed view they have of the USA and especially of our dropping of the bombs in Japan.
Sincerely,
Phil Nickerson

Your prompt reply to my inquiry is greatly appreciated. As you've no doubt guessed, we're trying to locate people who may have worked with our dad. This is in conjunction with an EEOICPA claim we've submitted to the Dept. of Labor because our father died from bone cancer in 1991.

Your website is most important to those of us who lived through the Manhattan Project years - no matter the site in which we happened to be placed. I do plan to contribute to the "cause", and will be sending what I can shortly. I have contacted a number of people regarding the Oak Ridge site, and will recommend this website to anyone interested.

Thanks again for your input regarding the War Dept. certificate. I was hoping to hear that those who received the certificates were required to be on the Project for a certain amount of time to meet eligibility requirements. I should have known it wasn't going to be quite that easy - to this point it's been like the Treasure Hunt from Hell.

I will continue to monitor your website in the outside chance I would be able to assist someone else in their search, as well as to glean information for mine.

I wish you continued success in your important project.

Denise Barbour

August 3, 2003

Your website layout is excellent! The only enhancement I would suggest is that you move the "back" & "next" buttons to the bottom of each page to eliminate having to scroll back to the top of each page.

This website is encouraging, and sorely needed. I've encountered so many frustrations while working on my father's claim, and I'm sure this is not unusual. It's evident lots of hard work has gone into the creation of this site.

Denise Barbour

July 7, 2003

Clarke E. Sheppard

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We have just met Floyd Kemner's daughter Sue, visiting a long-time friend, here in Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada. During WW2 I was a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force........truly intrigued with the stories surrounding this turning point in history. God Bless you all for your work in this regard. For some years a Director of the Turnbull Chapter, Canadian Aviation Historical Society, our work parallels yours..

June 30, 2003

General Dailey:

Not sure if this will make it to you, but if it does...

Thank you very much for the tour of the new museum and Dulles grounds yesterday. I enjoyed sitting with you on the bus to and from Dulles. It was an absolute thrill to be on a pre-opening tour with the Director of the Air and Space Museum! Add to that the fact that I stood in the bomb bay of the Enola Gay with you! Too much! That will be a lifelong memory!!

The passion you have for your work is so evident. I certainly share much of that passion and am very excited about the opening of this museum. As a citizen of the US and as an aviation enthusiast, thank you for your dedication. As we discussed, I don't have the time to volunteer as a docent nor deep financial resources (I own a fairly new financial planning practice and have three young children (9, 7, & 5)), but please keep me in mind if I can help out in any other way.

Thanks again!

Tim Murray

Chantilly, VA

April 25, 2003

kittykat821

United Kingdom

Cambridge University

Grade: 3rd Year

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I am a third year student who selected to write an essay on Los Alamos for a third year project. Your site was one of my main sources of information and it was very helpful. I enjoyed reading about what went on at Los Alamos and felt somehow inspired by the whole story. I think its important that you continue to tell and record all the stories from that time especially in today's nuclear-septic climate because what the Manhattan project managed to achieve is pretty incredible. Thanks for your help. Keep up the good work!

March 15, 2003 I have an article from October 1945 _Construction Methods_ magazine on concrete production for the construction of the Clinton Engineer Works: "Coordinated Transit-Mix Plant Furnishes Large Concrete Volume for Atomic Bomb Project." Discusses personnel, supply of raw materials, setup of plant and equipment, operations, and logistics. Three full pages of text including nine illustrations, plus an additional 15 column-inches or so of text. If you want it, I can scan & email, or scan & send via postal mail on a CD (the latter is probably better given the likely file size). Your site is truly fascinating, and also reassures me that terrorists are highly unlikely to have the competence to build an atomic bomb. I have an uncle I never knew who was in the Marines and died in the fighting on Saipan; and another uncle who was in the Army in WW2 & due to ship out for Japan to face almost certain death, when the atomic bombs were dropped; he was reassigned to Europe and lived to tell the tale. You folks who made atomic & hydrogen bombs not only helped save the world from fascism, but also got us through the cold war safely, and ultimately brought the downfall of the evil soviet empire without firing a shot. The fascists and communists were at least rational foes, unlike what we face today. I pray that these weapons will still function to deter war rather than being used in it. God bless you all, and God bless America. -George Gleason

January 29, 2003

Username: Robert W. Crawford

Userstate: 16 Chester Street Inverell, NSW, Australia

UserEmail: tewcrawford@hotmail.com

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OUTSTANDING SITE! This site is a credit to the research skills of all those involved in its design. A tribute not only to the 509th but to the strength, compassion and altruism of the American people. I enjoy peace and democracy today, largely due to the heroic efforts, sacrifices and resolve of the American people. How can I thank them? Perhaps reading through this site and the many WW2 books I have purchased.

From one grateful Australian Thank you.

I am a physics Professor.

About fourteen years ago I decided to change the format of a course I teach to non-majors. I wanted them to learn a limited area of physics, encounter that study historically, and understand the impact of physics on world history. Of course the Manhattan Project drew the obvious short straw. The unique aspect of this is that the class becomes the project. I divide the class into the actual working groups of the project and we work our way through from week to week. In thirteen weeks (thirty-nine meetings) we learn some basic nuclear physics and then work our way from the Einstein (and Szilard and Wigner) letter to Hiroshima. After we begin the actual project, I do not lecture. The class participants have a chronology, references (primarily Hewlett and Anderson), and a schedule of where we are each day on the project time line. They then report to the class, in open discussion, what they are doing in their groups. We do see tension between du Pont and the Met Lab. And we spend a lot of time in the mud and cleaning out calutrons at Y-12. And we mourn the deaths at S-50 when the HEX spilled. The students learn how a major project like this is undertaken by being the project. They also even learn some physics.

>From a student: "The moment of understanding for me came three classes from the end when we saw the footage of the Trinity Test. That was the moment I realized how we as scientists and engineers get caught up in the process of learning and discovering, of passion - and how it is possible for human beings like me to participate in actions and, at some moments, we don't even realize what we are participating in."

The student here is writing as a class participant who has "acted" her way through the project and was a "scientist." She is really a drama student.

Finally, we are a Mennonite college. So our students are mostly pacifists.

I, of course, lived in a victory cottage at Oak Ridge when I was four. My dad was project manager for John A. Johnson Construction in Oak Ridge. He lived in a dormitory until we got there in 44.

Peace, Carl Helrich

Carl S. Helrich, Ph.D. Goshen College

Professor and Chair 1700 South Main St.

Department of Physics Goshen, IN 46526

December 21, 2002

Username: Hannah

UserEmail_1: Greekdragon89

Comments:

Hello, I would just like to compliment you on your excellent website. I am doing a research paper on the atomic bomb and have found your website very informative. I also love your mission to keep the memory alive of the Manhattan Project. Thank You for this website and good job!

October 16, 2002

Username: dean haworth

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I cant wait until you have descriptions of all your pictures. That technical area building "N" looks spooky, but I would love to know what took place at all the technical buildings. Also why the barricades only on one side of a building? Thank God for nuclear science because my electronics, aviation, photography, computer hobbies were getting old! This stuff should keep me entertained for the next forty years.

October 10, 2002

To Whom It May Concern,

We found your web site just a couple weeks ago. It is so interesting, informative and the best web site I've ever visited! My son is part of a wonderful project at school. The project is called Images of Greatness. He is assuming the role of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Part of his presentation is a learning center. I thought I would write to see if you offer a pamphlet or any other educational information about the Manhattan Project that we could purchase, to place with his center? We are looking for educational information that parents & children and guest can take with them. Thank you in advance for your reply. Sincerely, Jackie Lenker

October 10, 2002

Nancy Radclyffe

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This site and organization are what I have been looking for since '96. My father was a civilian engineer, who was foreman of one of the shops the scientists used to make items for their experiments. His name was William S. Avard. I will get info and pics together, from siblings, and will be back in touch. I'll also need to spend a lot more time on this site. This is important work you are doing. Thank you! Nancy

October 4, 2002

Username: Klaus Magnus

Userstate: Germany

Comments:

I (58), being a history and English K-12 teacher, living and working in Goettingen and knowing some of the major players by sight (Heisenberg, Otto Hahn, David Hilbert) I was always interested in the history of science as it was shaped at Goettingen university 80-70 years ago. Also, I am going to teach an English course next semester dealing with the implementations of the development of the A-Bomb, focussing on Hahn, Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr, Oppenheimer, Teller etc. Currently in Goettingen in the old university library annex Pauliner Kirche an exhibition celebrates the 44 Nobel Prize Laureates who were connected with Goettingen. It cannot be avoided that the Heisenberg-Bohr meeting plays a role in that exhibition and so my attention was directed to M.Frayn's "Copenhagen" which was published in its German translation at Wallstein Verlag Goettingen. In the annotations I found a hint to your web site. It´s a treasure of data and sources on the subject and truly one of the best history projects on the web I ever saw.

However, I was a little bit puzzled that in your "Scientists' Hall of Fame" the infamous "Klaus Fuchs" is not mentioned. Although being disguised as a spy he is part of the game, is't he? I would be very interested in your comment on that. Greetings from Goettingen, Germany, Klaus Magnus

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SubjectOther: Web Site & I have Photos of the Enola Gay at the Smithsonian

Username: Matt Weyerich

UserEmail_2: mwnet@networkusa.net

9/21/02

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LOVE the site! I especially appreciate your treatment of the question of the Japanese being "victims". (Okay. Perhaps it's stated a bit forcefully, but, the truth is the truth.)

My grandfather cried when he heard news of the bomb. Not because of the lives lost, since he'd seen enough of that in Italy, Africa, and anywhere else "The Big Red One" went. (He was a doctor attached to the 1st. Did all the campaigns, including D-Day, through the Battle of the Bulge.) No, he cried tears of JOY, at not having to once again leave his family and face death...what he felt was CERTAIN death.

Personally, I think that says it all.

Gentlemen and ladies, this is a very informative web site, and I think all schools and libraries should have access to all the information available on here. I have gotten to meet Paul Tibbets a number of times, as well as Dutch Van Kirk, from the Enola Gay, and I know they still have so much more to say that SHOULD be in every history textbook out there. We must get the information and history out there for kids today, before too many stories and facts become lost. I have met Don Albury from Bockscar (co-pilot) and he says the same thing. This is very important history that cannot afford to be lost. Let me know what I can do to get it out there. Keep up the good work. Steve Savage

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Comments: 5/13/02

I FOUND A LOT OF VERY INFORMATIVE INFORMATION I WAS NOT AWARE OF. MY FATHER WORKED ON THE ATOMIC BOMB AND NEVER REVELED THE SECRETS INVOLVED. I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN PROUD OF HIM AND THE MANY MEN AND WOMEN WHO ALL PLAYED A PART IN HISTORY. THANK YOU FOR ALL THE HARD WORK AND TIME THOSE INVOLVED WITH THIS

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Comments: 5/11/02

Having to complete a high school research project on Robert Oppenheimer, I was at a loss as to where to locate some good information. Your website was extremely helpful, and I appreciate the many hours of work your organization has done in helping educate the public. I was in Los Alamos a couple of years ago with my family on vacation. The experience was very educational, however, looking back, I wish I would have paid more attention!

Thank you again!
N. Prendergast

I would like to thank you again for the work you are doing. My dad was very excited about the project. This was very important to him. I hope that more of my Richland Alumni will take this opportunity to honor their
parents. Considering that my dad is 87, so many of the people who worked at Hanford on this project have passed away and their children are no longer in the area or have contact with any of us.

When I was growing up there never seemed to be very many of us "Natives" around from that time period. In 12/46, General Electric moved in to town to take over the management of Hanford. That meant all new families and an all new social structure. Very interesting time period!!

Thank you again for all your hard work and making an old man very happy.

Susan Baker Hoover

03/08/02

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Username: Olivia Gutierrez

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I think you guys have great research facts. It is helping me a lot with getting a good grasp on the controversy with the atomic bomb being dropped in 45. I'm not emailing to say you've helped, I'm emailing to say you guys actually make it very interesting. I need to get a grasp on this subject because I have to type a research paper on a subject of choice. If there is any way you can think of helping me further as in suggesting books, if its not against some regulation or some crap like that, feel free to help me out. Thank you very much.

03/07/02

I am the son of the late Bobby Lee Walden EM2c plankowner of and crewman of the USS Wisconsin. He was on board the ship the day of the explosion. He related to me that there was a tremendous explosion near the ship and a cloud of what he thought might be sulfur covered the ship. This is all I know about the events of that time. But I have wondered for many years why a star athlete and telephone lineman would sudden suffer so many health problems from the age of 45 and continued until his death at 69.

Jim Walden

02/25/02

Dear Sirs:

Thank you so much for the information you gave me. The biographies and the D-D source information. It was greatly appreciated. You didn't help only one student, you helped about twenty. If I ever have to write about the Manhattan Project or the Atomic Bomb; I know who to contact. Thanks again.

Anita Brown

02/24/02

Hello,

My cousin Bill Emanatian wrote to you about my Dad - Richard Emanation.

I was born in Sante Fe, NM - 1945.

Thank you for this wonderful site. I already thanked Bill.

This is so exciting. I just wish my Dad was here to tell us all about it. I don't remember that he ever put the name "Manhattan Project" with all the stories he told us. My husband remembers that he did. My father died in 1969 of Cancer. A few years later, I saw in the NY Daily News an article asking about people who had been at Los Alamos.

They wanted to know if they were still alive and if dead, what they died of. Apparently, many died of lukemia and cancer.

Probably from the radiation. I remember people saying that after the testing, people went out with no protection - inspecting the areas and of course it was probably in the air.

02/21/02

Thanks for your reply. I found your site quite by accident. I have been collecting autographs from the surviving members of both bombing missions and decided to look on the web under the topic ( enola gay) there are thousands of links and after scrolling through about a hundred, found your site. It is extensive and very well put together. I will visit often as a reference and to continue exploring all of it. It needs no improvements as I see it. It's great to have so much info in one place. Thanks for all your efforts. Brad

02/16/02

Mike,
Thanks for the quick reply. The COTMP page is one of the most informative I've ever encountered on the internet. Glad to see that an effort is being made to preserve an important aspect of our history. You can access the USAF Nuclear Weapons Specialist Home Page by typing in "463X0 Home Page" on the Yahoo search engine, or with this link-

http://www.geocities.com/usaf463/463X0homepage.html

Sincerely,

Mike Maggelet
463X0 Home Page

02/15/02

Herbert Barger
Comments:

Excellent web page. I recorded a 100% correct score but it was taken 2/12/02, much too late for the contest. I had never read the books that the questions came from. I was a member of the 509th after it came to Roswell Army Air Field (later Walker AFB). I also lived a few miles from Oak Ridge as a teenager and watched the many vehicles on their way there on the narrow two land roads. Herb Barger

02/13/02

Mike,
Thanks for the quick reply. The COTMP page is one of the most informative I've ever encountered on the internet. Glad to see that an effort is being made to preserve an important aspect of our history.
You can access the USAF Nuclear Weapons Specialist Home Page by typing in "463X0 Home Page" on the Yahoo
search engine, or with this link-

http://www.geocities.com/usaf463/463X0homepage.html

Sincerely,

Mike Maggelet

01/07/02

From: "leo rettig"
To: "gadget" <cotmp1@angelfire.com>

I am trying to trace my college professor in atomic physics (1951-1952) who was a National Researh Fellow in 1929 under J. Robert Oppenheimer 1n 1929 at Caltech. Was he at Los Alamos during any period from the beginning of the Manhattan Project? A reply is appreciated. (By the way America was lucky to have such dedicated and brilliant people during that period. Without them thousands of Americans would have died on the shores of Japan!)

11/21/01

Children of the Manhattan Project

An amazing repository of historical information on all facets of the Manhattan Project, from the Rad Lab at Berkeley to Oak Ridge and Los Alamos and other sites. Photos, biographical sketches, source documents, newspaper accounts, storie about the research that led to the atomic bomb and much more fill a huge site here.

***Taken from Yahoo's internet directory

Date: 11/10/01

Hiroshima
Vincent Ontaglia

Comments:

One of your visitors thought your web site was lop-sided because it didn't include information about the Japanese civilians killed in the two atomic bomb raids. My father spent 3 months on Guam preparing for the invasion of Japan. If I had to choose between a Japanese woman or child...and, my father or any other American soldier who had witnessed first hand the brutality of the Japanese, I would choose the lives of the Americans...in a New York minute.

DATE: 29 Jun 2001 20:22:20 -070
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Sekanwagi Thomas
UGANDA
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Hi,
It was not untill of recent that i could actully access such data. But the "manhattan project" has been on my mind way back when i started watching TV b'coz in most of the movies that involve the CIA,WHITE-HOUSE etc, the manhattan project is mentioned as a gov't cover-up.
So it was from this that i picked up the interest in wanting to know what the heal happened in MANHATTAN the US-GOV'T is either so proud of or totally regrects having done.
Good Day.

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Username: Matthias Orphal
Userstate: Germany
Comments:

I'm interested in Manhattan Project History since many years (maybe because my brother is a physician...).

your informations are a great help to get a visual impression about the human and physical dimensions of that project.

8 Aug 2001
John M. Weil
Comments:

I was a member of the SED at Los Alamos. Got dumped off an A,T&S.F.RR train at Lamy one frosty morn at 4:00, taken for "coffee and" to a little hovel in what we learned was Santa Fe, then trucked across badlands and up switchbacks through an M.P. Gate where we exhibited our I.D. then to a hutment where we were given the "Word". Security. Manhattan was not New York, we learned. It is now so interesting, fascinating, to see how disinformation is so widely propagated. First we were given the disinformation that the Security Organization existed to protect the SECRET. That was its purported aim, but like every organization, its aim was to improve, enlarge, expand the role of SECURITY. In doing this, it stepped on its own toes,it hurt good people and it allowed some bad ones to do bad things. There are plenty of examples. J. Robert Oppenheimer was one of the greatest men of his time. A scientist, an organizer, a humanist, a leader, an orator, a patriot, a man of letters,and loved by all at Los Alamos(except for a handful of scheming worms).

It was SECURITY that crucified this great man. It was the failure of the SECURITY organization that allowed Sergeant David Greenglass to be cleared for Los Alamos to learn the secret of the Fat Man. The SECURITY Organization was the fundamental cause for this awful security leak. But the blame went to the Rosenbergs and David.

DATE: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 13:43:03
From: "John M. Weil" SED

My army uniform is somewhere in the archives of the Historical Society. Or somewhere. I visited Los Alamos again last year, went through the big museum, and was surprised to not find a single solitary word about the SED. Not one. There was a fully uniformed spit and polish MP in a glass cage however. The MP's didn't like the SED's much. Can't blame them, in a way. They really scraped the bottom of the barrel to find MP officers to make life even worse for those poor MP devils. We had one nice young fellow finally allowed to go on sick call. The OD timed it just right. The poor kid died the first night. And the cheery "Free-to-go" Tech Area guard. And today, we have writers saying all this A-Bomb stuff was unnecessary. Gotta go. J

Mark Wozney
Comments:

First well organized site. Second the content is fantastic! And third the speed. I'm on a DSL line and when I visit a web site, I judge it partly on the speed of download. No problems with your site, it's very fast! That alone will keep me coming back.

I've tried a number of links and all worked fine. No spelling errors that I could discern. That's another thing about web sites if the spelling is bad, I start thinking about the intelligence of the people who put it together. Let's face it, when you're not professional enough to care about the image you project, it REALLY shows. And in more ways than one.

DATE: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 00:31:37
From: "Laura Hernandez"
To: "gadget" <cotmp1@angelfire.com>

I'm going to be taking a trip to New Mexico with a friend real soon, and all I can say after reading the whole story on how "The Manhattan Project" came about, I do not wish to visit this tourist site/museum. It would just be too upsetting. I need to pray tonight real hard just to avoid any nightmares! We should have been more patient. It is so typical of our society (then and now) to want "quick answers and solutions". Tsk, tsk! While I'm aware of how people might have felt back then, I know people who still feel that way today, and I'd like to show them a few photos of women screaming and running around with their flesh hanging from their bones!. Shame on that decision to drop that bomb. I'd expect more from our smart leaders and society (or are they?).

DATE: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 13:00:49
From: "Harry Truman" <harrytruman@yahoo.com>
To: "gadget" <cotmp1@angelfire.com>

Now the jerk Japs are trying to rewrite history so that it appears as an economic matter and themselves as the champion of the colonized people of Asia. As if they weren't colonizing themselves as well as ethnic cleansing so their surplus population would inherit the emptied lands!

I'm glad I dropped the a-bomb on them. I would do it again if I had the chance and the context the same.

DATE: Thu, 29 Aug 2001 00:31:37
From: "Sam & Glorya Macaione"
To: "gadget" <cotmp1@angelfire.com>

Michael -
Thanks for your letter and also for your interest in keeping Los Alamos "alive" for all who helped in the process. Although I do not recognize any of the names that you mentioned, I can tell you a bit about myself -

After Combat Engineer training at Fort Belvoir in Va. and a special school in Illinois, my assignment was to the Manhattan Project where I continued in "C" Shop until mid 1945 when I was transferred to Post Recruiting.

In addition, I was an original member of the Post Dance Band, "The Keynotes", a 14 piece unit that played dance music every Saturday night in the Post theatre. (Bet that your parents remember!) We also had a 6 piece group called "The Sad Sack Six" ( part of the big band) that provided dance music for the Officer's Club, Rec Hall, etc. Piano, Bass, Drums, Guitar (me), Trumpet and Tenor Sax.

My wife Glorya and I visited Los Alamos during the 50th Anniversary time there and to our great surprise, while visiting the museum, we found a photo of the Sad Sack Six on display with other memories of the "old Los Alamos"

DATE: Thu, 5 Sept 2001 00:31:37
From: "George Meyers"
To: "gadget" <cotmp1@angelfire.com>

Ridiculous comment!! I worked on the project and I am VERY PROUD to have
contributed to ending the war earlier than if we had NOT dropped the bombs.
I went on to serve in the Army and I feel that during wartime it is the DUTY
of EVERY American to do whatever is possible to save the lives of OUR
service men & women!
WE did not START the war , but we were committed to ENDING it as QUICKLY as
possible. The Manhattan Project enabled us to do just that.. Do you think that
if the Germans or Japanese had developed it FIRST that THEY would not have
dropped it on US ??

George was at Columbia University!

DATE: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 02:53:42
From: "M Domsky"
To: "gadget" <cotmp1@angelfire.com>

I was 8 years old when I first heard of a "super weapon" which we had just dropped on the Japanese. To say that I and every other kid were not ecstatic over the American "strength" and an end of "the" war would be ridiculous. This reaction was mirrored by every adult I came in contact with. Any thought that there was even a discussion contrary to the bombing is patently ridiculous!

Philadelphia Incident
John Iacovino
Comments:

This is my very first visit to your site, having been referred from the Oak Ridge Historical Preservation Association site. This reporting, using words like "horrible deaths" and "fallout" on USS Wisconsin, does little to help people understand and differentiate between the whole issue of thermonuclear explosions vs controlled nuclear energy production, vs simple chemical processes. Uranium hexafluoride made from natural occurring uranium ore would contain very, very little radioactive material and the debris from the Philadelphia Naval Yard explosion, which was a chemical explosion, should not be called "fallout".
All persons associated with the Manhattan Project should be at the forefront providing correct, non-inflammatory information on all aspects of the nuclear program to at least balance all the misinformed, exaggerated anti-nuclear reporting that is typical in the media today.

Colin Anderson
Comments:
You suggest that the atomic bomb saved millions of lives by bringing a swift conclusion to the conflict, but no-where on the web site do I see any mention of the thousands of innocent women and children killed by the impact, or the unfortunate people who were not killed by the impact, but who bled through the pores in their skin until they died days later, or the continuing effects seen in the Japanese today.

Don't you think that this is worth a mention to temper the hero status to which you elevate the creators of the most devastating weapon ever conceived? You dedicate the site to J. Robert Oppenheimer and even he pondered the wisdom of creating the bomb, famously saying "I have become death, destroyer of worlds"

Manhattan Project

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