[50sDad]

Ignorant teens fed "humanitarian" bullflop by teachers and professors, have ABSOLUTELY NO CLUE about what our fathers and grandfathers faced. A nation exhausted by war would have had to invade an island nation inhabited by people convinced there Emperor WAS LITERALLY GOD; they would have fought with sharp sicks and kitchen knives down to the last man, woman and child. Allied deaths in a land invasion would have been in the hundreds of thousands. Japan started the war in a cowardly attack in 1941... but we finished it.

My uncle was killed in the battle of Midway by a Kamikaze attack... and I hold no ill-will. Those days are over, Japan survived and modernized. They went from an agrarian royalty-based system to a modern royal-figurehead democracy. But without the Bomb, the war would have stretched out for years, and they would still be worshiping a god-king.

[Kevmo]

Kamikaze attack at Midway? Sounds a bit early.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamikaze

The attacks began in October 1944, at a time when the war was looking increasingly bleak for the Japanese. They had lost several important battles, many of their best pilots had been killed, their aircraft were becoming outdated, and they had lost command of the air.