My Dad, the most wonderful man and my hero, (later an eye surgeon and father to me and six siblings) was a young Ensign in 1945, in charge of 4 LCVPs, on a small Destroyer Escort conversion to a landing support ship, APD. He was working up in the Atlantic for the invasion of Japan, while the European troops were repositioning back to invade Japan. They were told to expect, in a main invasion of main islands of Japan to expect 80 % casualties, almost a MILLION US alone, and over a million more Japanese. Battle hardened marines, my Dad said, from Europe joining his group wept when the bombs ended the war.
Is the relief of guilt from the communists and enemies of our country by wringing their hands over the destruction of those two cities, which were a fraction of the Japanese and American casualties from the nukes...why are we even listening to these idiots?
Who gives them any authority? How about the families, like me who would not have been born, where is my say in the collective guilt I must now support for what??? The end of a war??? I want to punch someone.
Correction;
“.Is the relief of guilt from the communists and enemies of our country by wringing their hands over the destruction of those two cities, which were a fraction of the Japanese and American casualties from the POTENTIAL INVASION INSTEAD...why are we even listening to these idiots?
In the Bill Whittle video I referenced above, he makes a personal comment to that exact same aspect as well.
His father (and yours...and mine as well) were three of those men who might never have come home from an invasion of Japan.
On a related note, every year, my father would give a Memorial Day speech in his hometown.
This picture was from 1995, which was also the year of the 50th anniversary of the dropping of the bombs.
My father had very strong feelings about the use of the Atomic Bomb, and in that speech in the town square after the parade he brought up the subject because it was all the rage in the news to talk about the racism, inhumanity, and needlessness of the use of the bomb, and it made him pretty mad.
I don't have a transcript of his speech, but...in it, he said something like "There is a lot of controversy about it today, but not from me. If we had more of them and earlier, we should have dropped them and kept dropping them until they surrendered."
The next day in the local paper, under the picture I posted above, it said something like "WWII Veteran Says America Should Have Dropped More Bombs"
My dad was solidly unrepentant. He didn't care what people said about him.
And neither did I.