[Gay State Conservative]

OK,I can accept that.However,it must be noted that far,far more tears would have been shed if an all out land invasion was necessary.

One million (plus) deaths...civilians and military...Japanese,American and others.

[Wilhelm Tell]

Exactly. The atomic bombs were horrible things and what happened should never be taken lightly, but having the war drag on for more years would have killed millions of Japanese and it would have also been a terrible toll on the Allies. Oh, and people in Nanjing and many other places cried, too - the Japanese weren’t there as tourists.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

It would have been 5 - 6 million Japanese dead in a conventional invasion, plus one million American causalities.

My father was in the U.S. Coast guard back then, preparing to go to landing craft school. He probably would have been one of those causalities.

This pope is a sick bastard.