And probably your cousin would have been a casualty. Without the A-bomb the invasion timetables didn’t envision an end to the Pacific War until ‘48 — at the earliest. Look at how few Soviet soldiers survived at the front the entire war. US troops would have had a similar experience.
My dad was a hardened combat veteran (88th/351st Army) of
N. Africa, Italy, & Germany. He would have been sent to
Japan if the war had dragged on. I was not born until the
year after the war ended & I might not have been born.