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To: No One Special

Monday morning quarterbacks with nothing to lose.

Ask all the survivors of the non-invasion of the Japanese islands about the atomic bomb. My great-uncle, who enlisted on December 8, 1941, would put his teeth in and give Herbert Hoover a earful.


4 posted on 08/06/2014 2:55:49 AM PDT by Tax-chick (No power in the 'verse can stop me.)
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To: Tax-chick
Yep. The Truman Administration was expecting at least 600,000 Allied casualties during Operation Downfall, and over a million Japanese. Harry made the right call.
5 posted on 08/06/2014 2:59:54 AM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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