[Redleg Duke]

After a couple of years on the North Atlantic Convoy run in a can and having two shot out from under him in the Med, my Dad spent the remainder of the war on Guam...however, who knows where he would have been if President Truman hadn't had the guts and foresight to pull the trigger on Japan!

All these years later, it was still the right call for all involved. I don't give a damn what the limp-wristed, panty-waisted pacifists have to say.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

who knows where [my dad] would have been if President Truman hadn't had the guts and foresight to pull the trigger on Japan!

Most likely his destroyer would have pulled invasion support duty in Operation Olympic. The Japanese had about 10,000 kamikazes ready for the invasion of Kyūshū (only 2,000 had been used during the invasion of Okinawa, only about one in nine scoring hits on American ships) and destroyers would have been the front line of defense. Operating much closer to home bases, not having to fly out long distances over water, they probably would have been much more successful this time. It's likely they would have sunk 400 American ships (realistic Japanese estimate).