My Mother was an 11 Year old child, remembered seeing, as she described it, sixty-three years later: flashing sun from her hometown of Fukuoka, Japan - it was the dropping of the second Atomic Bomb on Nagasaki, Japan. My Mother remembered the air-raids and bombings, and she holds no anger or malice towards the Americans because she still says to this day that the action the Americans took saved lives and that the Japanese would have never given up. I thank your Father for his service to this country. My Late Father, was an American and served in the United States Army, it was his birthday today, Happy Birthday Daddy./Just Asking - seoul62......... I had a professor in college who was born in Germany shortly after the war ended. He once said to the class "I'm glad you Americans bombed the hell out of us, I would have hated growing up under Hitler.".
And happy birthday to your dad from me as well.