[glorgau]

Easily justified. My father was on an escort carrier off the coast of Japan when the war ended. Those were a prime target for kamikazes.

[chaosagent]

As were the hospital ships. My mother was Chief of Nursing at West Point during most of the war. She and most of her nurses were on a train from New York to New Orleans to board transport ships to support the invasion of the Japanese mainland.

They were turned around about halfway there due to the bomb being dropped on Hiroshima.

I’m possibly only here due to the Atomic Bomb.

[Rummyfan]

My father was on an escort carrier off the coast of Japan when the war ended. Those were a prime target for kamikazes.

Escort carriers had the designation CVE. The joke was they were

Combustible

Vulnerable

and Expendable...