“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 ...
If a decision about dropping atomic bombs on Japan in 1945 is vindicated by the existence and well-being of specific Americans in 2020, then what about all the people who don’t exist in 2020 because of military decisions that cost AMERICAN lives in World War II? Does your life matter more than, say, the hypothetical grandson of a U.S. Marine who lost his life in the Battle or Okinawa, Iwo Jima, etc.? For that matter, why don’t we go back and ask the same question about the morality of the Battle of Gettysburg, or even the American Revolution?