Thinking of ways I could lie to you and not lose you

[sovay]

I understand from both context and the body of the e-mail that the eye-catching subject header "The story Oppenheimer won't tell you" is referring to the film and specifically to its elision of the existence of the Downwinders—whose concerns, long before they were designated by name, were flagged well within the timeline of the movie and whose survivors and still-affected descendants are in current danger of losing their compensation for nothing more than the government of cruelty which has become the point of the Republican Party—but because no quotation marks are placed around the name, it really does sound like the non-profit which sent the e-mail has just run out of patience for Oppie's caginess, which did also happen to people in history.

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[tommx]

Hello there. I found your journal through a friend of friend rabbit hole. Having read some of your public posts, I feel like you might be someone with whom I would like to be acquainted. May I add you to my friends list?

When my father first told me about the bombing at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, he made sure I knew all about the lingering effects on the Downwinders.

I'm genuinely surprised that Josh Hawley is named as someone who objected to the removal of the NDAA. A broken clock is right twice a day, I guess.

[sovay]

May I add you to my friends list?

Thank you for asking! Pleased to meet you, and I do not mind.

I'm genuinely surprised that Josh Hawley is named as someone who objected to the removal of the NDAA. A broken clock is right twice a day, I guess.

I suspect it was a local cause for him because of the contamination of Coldwater Creek, but the amendment should still have been in there.

I am glad your father told you a fuller story of the Manhattan Project that many people get the first time around.