Posted on 08/08/2015 4:27:51 AM PDT by Kaslin
You wouldn't believe what's being taught in American public schools. The commie teachers have our kids believing we were the aggressors in World War II.
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Legend has it that Truman agonized over the decision to drop the bomb. This was not a decision made lightly. But in the end Truman realized that saving thousands of American lives was far more important than the number of Japanese civilian casualties. Truman had to put America first — something the current occupant of the White House won’t do.
We should have executed Hirohito for War Crimes, but didn’t.
It is also very likely that Hokkaido and the eastern half of Honshu would have been invaded by Soviet forces (at our explicit invitation) resulting in a situation parallel to East and West Germany and North and South Korea. Instead we in the west had the enormous human talents of the Japanese, pacified and focused on technological innovations for the benefit of the world, and a military base of operations off the coast of Asia, all to ourselves.
My standard question to those who bemoan the use of nuclear weapons....
If the Japanese or the Nazi’ possessed these weapons and the ability to deliver them, do they believe that either one of these would have would have used them without remorse?
Wiped the smiles right off their faces...They better hope we never do it again. Lesson better be learned.
Truman’s private papers and interviews showed no special agony beyond a natural aversion to regrettable tasks of any war.
Great additional point, again one that you have to know your history to understand. Most people don’t.
The Chinese are quite eager to remind them what happened.
My dad commanded an LCT on Utah Beach. Later, he was XO on an LST. They were headed to the Pacific, crossing the Panama Canal, when the war ended.
Anyway, regardless of how good or bad a president Truman was, I give him credit for making the tough decisions. I just look at Truman, then I look at Obama. No comparison.
This how we need to deal with radical Islam.
I had a friend who was a Marine on Tarawa. He didn’t talk about it much, but one time he did. He said that when they landed, the island was an impenetrable jungle, and when they left, there was not a tree standing. They had all been mowed down by rifle fire. That was what it was like taking land from the Japanese.
The Japanese were in the process of training and arming the entire civilian population of the Home Islands when we dropped The Bomb. Imagine the horror of that invasion. Every person able to walk would have rushed our soldiers, bamboo spear or grenade in hand. We would have had to kill them all. We would have had to kill them all.
EXCELLENT ARTICLE! Thank you for posting! My dad was in the Philippines and preparing for the invasion of Japan.
Thank goodness, because of those bombs, that invasion didn’t happen. It would have been far worse for both us and them.
Dear Japan,
Fuk - u - Shima you
Tptb may be making your nuclear contamination of the pacific ocean and the world a nonstory but for how much longer
One probable result of Hiroshima is that there was not a nuclear exchange between the USSR and the USA. Without that demonstration on a city all the testing in the world might not have been enough to deter the Soviets, or perhaps the USA, from firing nukes when they, and we, had several of them.
Read about the invasion of Okinawa and how tens of thousands of Japanese were ordered to commit suicide rather than surrender to the white Devils
And so they did
I believe there may be memorials at some of the cliffs where women and children jumped to their deaths
Now apply that same edict to the entire Japanese mainland and, with the information available to a 1945 war planner, calculate the Japanese civilian death toll by suicide had an invasion occurred
“You wouldn’t believe the BS that is taught in Jap schools about WWII. Total propaganda. Most Japs don’t even know about Pearl Harbor.”
You wouldn’t believe the BS that is taught in US schools about WWII. Basically nothing, except perhaps about Navaho code talkers and how generally horrible we were - which is why every year, we have to endure the season of second-guessing the atomic bombing of Japan.
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