[Ancesthntr]

“He was 35 years old and had three children———we were running out of young men.

Thank God for the bombs.”

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I agree that we should have dropped the bombs - many, many people are alive on both sides of the Pacific who otherwise wouldn’t have been.

But we were NOT running out of young men. We had roughly 400,000 killed during all of WW2, vs. 26 million in the USSR and similarly (percentage-wise) in other nations. As bad as it was for any family to lose anyone (and a distant cousin of my father’s was killed right near the end in Germany), we suffered a pinprick next to what other nations did. We had PLENTY of young men left.

[dfwgator]

Our infrastructure was also intact, unlike the rest of the world. And the US prospered like never before, after the war, because of it.