Baton Death march, 10’s of thousands of Chinses innocents raped and murdered viciously, Japanese imperialism that treated all others as chattel to be abused.
Stop with the pity, they literally got what they deserved for countless state sponsored atrocities that the common Japanese person at the time did not lift a finger to protest, in fact culturally they supported it.
I have sympathy for those who suffered under any attack, nothing though for those who use such suffering as a way to undermine an action used to end a war that was not of our making.
No credit for having our sons die over there to keep southern Korea out of the clutches of Communist China and their northern Korean puppets?
They got what they deserved at the time.
A terrifying weapon to end a terrifying, militaristic, fascist, genocidal empire. A terrifying weapon that actually saved the lives of countless Americans AND Japanese from the horrors of having to conquer the whole of the home islands by conventional means.
Perhaps they should have more deeply considered the consequences of their actions before waking the “Sleeping Giant.”
When I read the headline I thought they suffered from effects that drifted over to Korea - duh, double duh. I am sure there were lots of folks from other countries living in those two cities who were harmed. They were living there. I give them no extra sympathy.
Damn right we never apologized - nor will we. Ever. WWII was a brutal, nasty total war. Throughout the Asia/Pacific region an estimated 10,000 people were dying every single day that war continued - most of them were civilians in Allied countries. In addition to that, the next 6 months promised to be far far worse with either Operation Downfall involved the invasion of Japan or the continued Naval Blockade of Japan combined with the worst harvest Japan had had in 50 years. An estimated 4-6 million people were going to starve to death in Japan in the next 6 months.
Those nuclear bombs - as horrific as they were - saved many many lives.
Our ancestors that fought the Nips and Krauts would laugh at this sympathy.
What about the Korean “comfort women” enslaved by the Japs?
Never forget …….. Pearl Harbor ………
Japan wanted war, they got war. Tough noogies.
“”No-one takes responsibility,” says Shim Jin-tae, an 83-year-old survivor. “Not the country that dropped the bomb. Not the country that failed to protect us. America never apologised. Japan pretends not to know. Korea is no better. They just pass the blame - and we’re left alone.””
Why should America apologize? We gave the Japs every opportunity to surrender before dropping the bomb...
But what weighs more heavily is that the pain didn’t stop with her. Her son Ho-chang, who supports her, was diagnosed with kidney failure and is undergoing dialysis while awaiting a transplant.
“I believe it’s due to radiation exposure, but who can prove it?” Ho-chang Lee says. “It’s hard to verify scientifically - you’d need genetic testing, which is exhausting and expensive.”
She’s 88 which means by my calculations she was eight years old at the time the bomb dropped....if she had her kid at age 23 that means he would’ve been born around 1960....yet somehow he got kidney cancer from the radiation despite being born 15 years after the bomb was dropped?
There was also an American POW facility in Hiroshima at the time the bomb was dropped yet you never here anything about those American GI’s...
As quoted in The Buck Stops Here: The 28 Toughest Presidential Decisions and How They Changed History, Thomas J. Craughwell, Edwin Kiester Jr., Quarry Books, 2010, p. 178.
Dawn on a Sunday morning,
Dawn on the wide, blue sea,
Hawaii, isle of sunshine,
Lay so peacefully.
Then from the sky without warning,
The vultures swarmed to attack.
Hiding behind their peace talk,
They stabbed our boys in the back!
#FAFO. Don’t attack the U.S. and don’t get nuked. Don’t start nothin’, won’t be nothin’!
The Japanese war lords (and the Emperor) should have surrendered long before this.
Japan’s fault.
They started it.
They refused to surrender.
Nuking was less deadly than invasion.
They deserved it.
Sounds like gaza.