It saved Japanese lives too, averting the bloodbath that would have occurred had we invaded the islands.
It was the summer between the 1st and 2nd grade for me. Our school traditionally kept classes together with the same teacher for those grades. We had spent all of 1st grade learning patriotic songs and we sang them in a special program for our parents at the beginning of 2nd grade. I suspected that the government had arranged to end the war just at that time so that we’d all still be with the same teacher for the program, because if the war had gone on any longer the new teacher (3rd grade) wouldn’t know our songs and it would have spoiled the program.
Funny how little kids think.
I was just a twinkle in my Dads eye in 1945,He was an Aviation Machinists Mate stationed on a ship in the Pacific.