I don’t care what all these words say.... My FIL was a first lieutenant on a ship headed for Japan.... He was to be in the first wave in the invasion... Then the bombs were dropped.... My ex wife and my children would not exist if not for the bombombs.. I cannot be convinced otherwise
“My FIL was a first lieutenant on a ship headed for Japan”
My Dad had just returned from Europe. After a short leave, he was on a train passing trough Kansas on his way to the west coast when the news came. They stopped at Fort Reily for a couple of weeks, and then got their walking papers. You would have had a hard time convincing him it wasn’t the right thing to do.
“I don’t care what all these words say.... My FIL was a first lieutenant on a ship headed for Japan.... He was to be in the first wave in the invasion... Then the bombs were dropped.... My ex wife and my children would not exist if not for the bombombs.. I cannot be convinced otherwise”
my father joined the navy when he turned 18 right at the end of the war, so little doubt he would have been sent as part of the invasion of Japan, and i might not be here today if the bombs hadn’t ended the war when they did ...