Two thoughts:
1) Did ANYONE in Japan ever think that the Hiroshima bombing was right?
2) Young people today are barely aware that WW II even occurred, let alone the logic and reasoning behind Truman’s decision. Add years of pacifist propaganda and Voila.
You mean “World War What?” “There was a war?”
And was the attack on Pearl Harbor “right”?
“1) Did ANYONE in Japan ever think that the Hiroshima bombing was right?”
From my travels in Japan, I have found that their education system (really an indoctrination process) “teaches” their children that Japan did nothing to warrant being bombed. I’ve had school children corner me in Shinkansen train stations and ask me to promise not to ever bomb their country again. To this day, Japan refuses to accept responsibility for starting WWII in the Pacific. Their kids grow up thinking that America was the agressor.
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YES!!! I did business with -- and then was treated to lunch ("negi" -- eel) by the elderly Chief Technologist of a Japanese materials firm. During lunch, he shared with me that he was one of the very first Japanese Army officers into Hiroshima after the bombing.
I responded that, at that time, I was seven years old.
He said he had to hike several miles back along the railroad line to find a working telegraph -- and, then no one at headquarters would believe such a description of destruction -- from a junior officer.
Before we finished lunch, he confided in me:
"If you folks had not dropped those two bombs -- giving our leaders an excuse to stop fighting -- your son and my grandsons would still be fighting in the hills of Nippon."That was in 1979.
When I was in Japan with the USAF, (1961-64) everywhere I explored on my motorcycle in the back country, I found hills riddled with caves and fighting positions.
I believed Takagi Sensei....
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Only a liberal imbecile like 0b0z0 would apololgize for saving millions of lives