As the daughter of a veteran of the Pacific Theater of war, who was scheduled for the invasion, I find any revisionism of evil Imperial Japan a disgrace and an embarrassment to my country.
“As the daughter of a veteran of the Pacific Theater of war, who was scheduled for the invasion, I find any revisionism of evil Imperial Japan a disgrace and an embarrassment to my country.”
And you’re right to feel that way. This is a disgraceful and shameful article of the sort popular among those who will never have to fight a war. It lets them stroke their moral superiority to the unlucky GIs who would have been shot to death by the tens of thousands in the conventional invasion.
My own father had just finished fighting in the European theater. His division, along with the other ETO armies, was told that they would next be sent to the Pacific for the coming invasion. There were already 700,000 troops like your father staging there. They weren’t expected to be enough. General officers familiar with Japanese defenses predicted that the first five waves of GIs landing on the beaches would be cut to ribbons. Apparently an acceptable alternative for the morally pure who condemn the bombs.