Like mine, for instance. My father, a Marine who barely survived the fighting on Okinawa was supposed to be part of the first wave of the invasion of Japan. Macarthur's staff estimated 100% casualties for the first wave. Thank you Harry Truman.
Same here. My Dad went on to become part of the occupation forces in Japan. Had we decided to invade rather than drop the bomb, I might very well have never been born.
We owe so much to that generation, in more ways than we can possibly count.
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.........