[vetsvette]

Even the Japanese should be grateful that Truman had the courage to drop those A-bombs.

Only leftists lack the native intelligence and common sense to understand the realities.

[SJackson]

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[ex-snook]

Thanks for that post. I was in Munich the day Hitler killed himself and held on the Austrian border when the war in Europe ended. But the war did not end for us because we were sweating out going to the Pacific. When Truman dropped the bombs, it did end for us and we could look forward to returning home. I was always glad that Truman did what he did, if only for the way it worked out for me.

[tpaine]

I have many of the same memories.. Grew up in White Bear Lake Minnesota.
My father served two years on the Alcan Highway, then worked at Twin Cities Arms plant, New Brighton. -- I squeezed many a bag of margarine yellow.

[tubebender]

I’m 74, born in 1933 and these stories bring up old memories and emotions and tears always flow freely as they are now. I had 2 older brothers and 2 older sisters and before long they were gone. The 2 brothers were drafted and my sisters left for war plant job in the bay area. It seems like they left over night and I was left with my parents, my younger sister and my best friend Prince.

Prince was my brothers dog and he told me he was mine now. My oldest brother was in the Combat Engineers and went to England to prepare for D Day. The other brother was bombardier on a B17 flying out of Molesworth England. He was shot down Aug 15, 1944 over Weisbaden and spent the rest of the war in a few Pow camps including Stalag III.

One sister enlisted in the Wacs but served stateside. They all came home and lived full lives. Sisters married veterans , one served in the Navy in the S Pacific and the other was in the 9 Air Force engineers building P47 air fields across France.

We were lucky at home as we lived on a farm and my father was never out of work. We got our war news from 3 day old papers, radio but most of all from the news reels at the Sat matinee at the little theater in town...