[nickedknack]

I would not be here today were it not for Little Boy and Fat Man. My father was on the Philippine island of Mindanao, helping to keep the Nips bottled up in the interior and preparing for the invasion of Japan, when the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The quick end to WWII allowed him to return home in December 1945, marry my mother in January 1946, and father four children, all raised to honorable adulthood. Never any question Truman made the right call for America, our Allies, and our enemies. It saved millions of lives on all sides that otherwise would have been lost having to take the Land of the Rising Sun by force from fanatical Japs.

Yes, I used Nips and Japs...deal with it. Read “The Rape of Nanking” and “Prisoners of the Japanese.”

[New Perspective]

Thank you for a great post. :)

[mkjessup]

Thanks for sharing that FRiend, Truman, LeMay, Tibbets and all of those involved had no idea of just how many lives they were ultimately saving, and the families they spared from death, grief and destruction.

Yes, I used Nips and Japs...deal with it. Read “The Rape of Nanking” and “Prisoners of the Japanese.”

And Unit 731. That alone qualified the Japs for being nuked off the face of the Earth, in my opinion.

[Enchante]

Yes, and it’s almost always ignored that Truman’s action saved tons of Japanese lives, too, probably at least a couple of million lives. Not to mention countless lives of various Asian populations and our Allies, etc. Also, although Truman may not have known this, Japanese prison camp commanders were under orders to execute all their prisoners upon the invasion of Japan.

Sure, Truman was thinking primarily of ending the war for Americans, but the atomic bombings were also moral in averting vast carnage for the Japanese, too.