My Uncle Dave was in the Navy aboard the cruiser USS Santa Fe and barely survived combat in the Pacific and my late father-in-law was a Marine. My dad was getting ready to graduate high school in 1945 and he would have been drafted into the fighting had the bombs not been dropped. My father-in-law was wounded on Iwo Jima. He was recuperating from his wounds when the bombs were dropped and like a million other guys in the Pacific he got to see his next birthday. He came home, married and started a family, four girls, one of whom today is my wife.
“They did- IN SPADES! It sickens me to hear and read people get weepy every August 6th. and 9th. The world doesn’t get weepy every December 7th.”
Yep, I met a gentleman who survived the Bataan Death March. After visiting with him on numerous occasions, it’s very difficult to feel sorry for Japan being nuked. They got what they deserved.