[Prime Choice]

What the Japanese don't like to admit is that their fanaticism of the '40s has only recently been mirrored in contemporary times by the Jihadists. After all, the attacks on 9/11 were not new in style; they were merely an extension of the kamikaze suicide attacks that were the the staple of Japanese military policy toward the conclusion of the war.

And like it or not, we wouldn't have needed to drop not one, but TWO nuclear bombs on Japan if the Japanese had simply recognized the writing on the wall and surrendered when they had the chance.

In short, they don't like people knowing what brought the end to the Second World War? Tough. They started it. We finished it.

[buccaneer81]

If it makes the Japanese feel any better, they should realize that the destruction of their two cities and 240,000 people probably prevented a nuclear exchange between the US and the Soviets. Tests are one thing. Seeing real cities and real people vaporized is quite another. Hiroshima and Nagasaki demonstrated the real-world results of atomic weapons.

[Marauder]

I shook hands and said "Thank you" to Mr. Tom Ferebee for his service as bombardier on the Enola Gay's mission over Hiroshima. He autographed a pic of that B-29 for me, some 4 or 5 months before he passed away, and I have it along with his obituary framed on the wall in my den.

Will we ever see another generation like that one?

[Levante]

"In short, they don't like people knowing what brought the end to the Second World War? Tough. They started it. We finished it."

That is as concise a statement as I have ever seen.