Alumni Sandstorm ~ 11/19/99 
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>>From: Dick Harris (49) 

RE: Richland Timelines 

TO Dave Hanthorn (63) 

Dave: I think you need to look a little closer at the
timelines. I came to Richland in August of 1944 and
attended Sacajawea and Marcus Whitman Grade Schools. Then,
I was a freshman at Columbia High School in September of
1945. In that year, I was one of the Managers of the
Basketball Team in which Bud Row (47) and so many great
stars of the Bomber Basketball Team performed so
magnificently! I was never a Manager of the Richland
Beavers, but I do know that they were the Beavers, prior
to being the Bombers. We learned immediately following the
dropping of the plutonium bomb on Nagasaki that our
parents had been involved in producing plutonium at the
Hanford Project and that was in Aug, 1945. We were the
Richland Bombers, prior to the dropping of the bomb. I
agree with you about the concern of rewriting of history,
with regard to out family's contribution to the war effort
and we should not apologize, but be proud of the history
of our contribution to the shortening of the War! Our
family was most sensitive to this as I had three brothers
in the service in Europe and we didn't want them to have
to be sacrificed in an invasion of Japan! There is no way
that anyone can convince our family that our country
didn't do the right thing in dropping the bombs and
shortening the War! At least, that is the way I remember
and see it!

-Dick Harris '49 
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