A-Bomb Stamp

Re “Truman to Displace A-Bomb on Stamp,” Dec. 9:

Scrapping the atomic bomb mushroom cloud stamp by the post office was the right idea, but for the wrong reason. The stamp should have had two mushroom clouds. It took the second bombing to convince the die-hard Japanese authorities to surrender a week after the first one.

We are dismayed that the U.S. State Department has intervened on behalf of the Japanese government, instead of representing the interests of millions of Americans (and Japanese) who are alive today because the atomic bomb brought such a swift end to the war.

CARL OLSON

Northridge

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* If the Postal Service issues 10 stamps commemorating World War II, it makes little sense to ignore the paramount event of the war, if not the century. Wars are all insensitive and in bad taste and the stamps should commemorate this fact, regardless of whom they offend.

The Japanese government still suppresses the truth about World War II; I don’t see why the United States should collude in the Japanese amnesia.

NICHOLAS SCHROEDER

Redondo Beach