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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
As far as I'm concerned, sir, that's the quote of the day.
If anyone knows a better one, I'd like to see it.