[DavidLSpud]

After serving in Europe my Dad was on a ship heading toward Japan...when the Atomic bombs dropped...

Without the Atomic bombs, I probably would not have been created...

The atomic bombs probably saved Japan millions of lives and 3 more years of suffering, starvation, ...we were preparing to use poison gas and anything else to end the war...we were taking 17 year old kids out of high school one year early...

[dfwgator]

The atomic bombs probably saved Japan millions of lives and 3 more years of suffering, starvation, .

Plus it saved at least half of Japan from falling under Soviet domination.

[onedoug]

Agreed.

MCF, I like your tag line.

[noinfringers2]

I was on Leyte in a short line getting my combat gear for the invasion of Japan. To be candid and honest my emotions were mixed. My brother had been killed on Okinawa a few weeks earlier and I was a very angry infantry replacement wanting some revenge, yes,even at my own peril. However I also realized dropping the bombs saved many US lives including probably mine. The bombs were by far the wiser of alternatives.

[Blogatron]

I've been following the daily posts on the war 70 years ago. At this point in the war US and British carriers were cruising unchallenged off the east coast of Japan and launching fighter-bomber raids with 100's of planes and sinking Japanese battleships docked in their harbors. B-29's were dropping 1000's of tons of bombs on each raid and setting major cities on fire. Our battleships were parking just a few thousand yards off shore and blasting Japanese industry to ruins, completely unchallenged. They were almost completely helpless to stop it. If they had more sense than pride they would have surrendered weeks before the bomb was dropped. But then you look at the maps and see that Japan still controlled almost all of southeast Asia, a good third of China, all of Manchuria and Korea. They must not have thought they were losing.