Posted on 09/02/2025 1:42:59 PM PDT by Retain Mike
thanks for your story, brother. as crushing and evil as that war was, i believe God’s hand was in and through all of it. Japan was forever welded by a thermonuclear torch to the heart of America. i’ll remember your dad and brother, they may have fought side by side with mine.
Yet some debate whether we really need to drop the atomic bombs. Can you imagine the losses if we invaded the home islands?
If we had invaded Japan and after 2 million American troops and 10 million Japanese civilians had died, and the news came out that Truman could have ended the war in August 1945 but refused to use the bomb, he would have been looking for a country he could flee to which had no extradition treaty with the US.
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