[Dixie Yooper]

If we hadn't dropped the big ones and ended the war, my dad would have been part of the invasion force and would have probably been slaughtered on the beaches with the rest of our troops. From what I hear, Normandy was at least possible to invade and succeed. Japan's coast was impossible.

[Vermont Lt]

Here’s an apology: Go F yourself.

Sorry we nuked ya. Not.

[Vermont Lt]

Here’s an apology: Go F yourself.

Sorry we nuked ya. Not.

[Moose4]

My father would’ve as well. He was a motor pool sergeant on Leyte but he’d already been told that should Japan be invaded, he’d be going ashore at some point—maybe not in the first wave, but he’d be going there.

Had we been forced to invade Japan with the war prolonged, millions would’ve died on both sides while the Soviet Union took advantage to eat up all the Japanese spoils in Asia. (Don’t forget, the USSR invaded Manchuria on August 9, conquered it in mere days, and sent several hundred thousand Japanese POWs and settlers to the gulags, most never to return. After the firebombings and the A-bombs, that was the final nail in the coffin that convinced Hirohito to surrender.)

Two hundred thousand dead in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, or ten million dead from war, disease, and famine after an invasion? Doesn’t seem like all *that* tough a choice.

}:-)4