Unsubstantiated hearsay.
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
I am not 2nd guessing history and I’ve heard all the arguments for and reasons why we dropped the bomb. Yet, even so, I think of the children happily playing in the streets, the moms reading books to thier children, and all those kinds of things as a bomb comes falling down from the sky. Rather than fight army to army, we chose to drop hellacious bombs on civilians, it just doesn’t sit well with me, and I hope it never happens again. I’m proud to be an American and greatful to the Good Lord that I was born here, and my children, nonetheless, when I think of those bombs, I think of those things.
Japan was a Warrior nation!
All parties understood actions taken and the consequences of those actions.
While croos teaching in high school ( I normally taught engineering tech, but for a day I taught a history class on the technology we use today that started development in WW2)
When we got to nuclear energy, Hiroshima and Nagasaki came up, as the normal teacher of that class had taught that already. I aske the class if they had covered the Rape of nanking and the japanese occupation of china... Of course not. We got online, and covered the 1 million plus deaths around nanking, and the rape of all females 8 -80 in the province. I then asked them what they deemed worse, 1 million dead over 4 months, or 200,00 dead in an instant. They all agreed the rape of nanking was worse. I then asked if you were the president faced with lsing 1 million US soldiers and 10 million japanese, which would you choose, the bomb or the invasion... 100% went for the bomb. At the end of the day they wondered why their textbooks didn’t cover the subject the way I had... go figure
Its fine with me.
I love American troops (and want them to come home safe...) and their families far more than I care for enemy civilians. I think about all the children who grew up with their fathers, all the wives and girlfriends welcoming their men home, and I think - “Good call, Harry.”
We did the same to Dresden and Tokyo, only without Nuclear weapons. Those “Moms” worked in factories building weapons that killed Americans. Those “children” could have become soldiers who killed Americans. The soldiers who were killing Americans were children of those “Moms”. Those civilians allowed their country to be taken over by madmen and those madmen survived only as long as the public allowed them to. They brought that on themselves, but don’t worry, we are in the process of doing the same thing right now.
Your desire to see Americans suffer will soon be quenched. We are electing madmen and encouraging them to destroy our country. When the end comes, and it will be awful, people, supposedly innocent people will suffer and die, and it will be our own fault. We will have no one to blame but ourselves. Trust me no German or Japanese person will feel one bit sorry for us.
Unsubstantiated hearsay.
“I think of the children happily playing in the streets, the moms reading books to thier children...”
Military training was an important part of Japanese school cirriculum. Every student received military training from a very young age.
*Yet, even so, I think of the children happily playing in the streets, the moms reading books to thier children, and all those kinds of things as a bomb comes falling down from the sky.*
In Japan in 1945? They were too busy training to be suicide commandos for the Emperor. All 100 million of them were suspected to die for their living deity. Do some reading before you overdose on sentimentality.
Those Japanese children were growing up to be these monsters:
http://incredibleimages4u.blogspot.com/2010/04/brutal-japanese-during-second-world-war.html
I wouldn’t watch the videos or look at the pictures if I were you.