>>to the extent that their deaths afforded my grandfather the opportunity to live
So you'd trade two cities for your grandfather? Isn't that rather selfish? Trust me, your grandfather isn't worth two cities... None of us are..
Yep. And I'd trade ANY American soldier/sailor/airmen/marine's life in that bargain: in a war they didn't start, against a fanatical enemy that deserved to be defeated.
Trust me, your grandfather isn't worth two cities
Trust me, asshole: he was worth a million of you, any day of the week. And all the ashes in Hiroshima & Nagasaki put together, to boot.