Posted on 08/06/2010 6:55:36 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets
On December 7, 1941 my father was asleep in his barracks, his National Guard active duty commitment almost finished, he looked forward to returning to civilian life. Events that morning in Haiwaii dramatically changed his prospects.
If not for the events of August 6, 1945 in Japan the chances that he would ever be returned to civilian life would have decreased significantly. Even had he survived the War, the chances that he would have returned when he did, pursue the career he did and met my mother and married her in 1948 and had a son in 1950 would have been effectively zero.
It took a thousand miracles, a million inprobable coincidences, a billion happenstances for me to come into existance. Of all these odd events, no single event stands out like Hiroshima. Without it, I almost certainly would not be here today. The same is true for most of the people living in the United States today.
No more Hiroshimas?
Easy. No more Pearl Harbors.
“I remember as a very young toddler getting packages from my dad in someplace called Aniwetok”
You might mean Eniwetok. Major Marine battle there and Kwajalein. Feb ‘44 I believe.
Wow, that drug addled brain wrote those words? Is Ozzy conservative???? That’s not a lefty position:
If that’s the only thing that keeps the peace
Then thank God for the bomb
Sounds like something I’d say..
I don’t believe that this is true. The Japanese surrender was unconditional.
Also very near the site of some pretty serious H-bomb testing after the war.
BTW, I’ve been to Kwaj twice...there and Roi Namur also...went touring around some of the remaining bunkers there. They really got blasted.
You can argue whether the insistence of keeping an emporer and accepting that condition made it unnecessary to bomb them was the key, but I contend that the national psyche of war and dominance that overly influenced the population could only be subjugated one way, and that was total defeat - the best and most expedient way at that time was the A-bomb.
I disagree. You are forgetting that Japan (far more than Iraq, for example) had a recent quasi-Democratic condition of free elections. The imperial elite had been thoroughly discredited even before the bomb and Japan was beaten. This is why the Japanese were sending out peace feelers! It was not necessary for us to violate the ancient rules of war by a TERRORISTIC tactic of INTENTIONAL killing thousands of babies (both in the womb and in their cribs) as well as destroy the heart of Japanese Christianity. If that Japanese had done that to our babies and little old ladies, there would have been no question that they would have been executed for war crimes.
I meant to say they had a tradition not condition.
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