That bomb saved a lot of lives. It was a happy day indeed for those troops scheduled to invade Japan.
Like mine, for instance. My father, a Marine who barely survived the fighting on Okinawa was supposed to be part of the first wave of the invasion of Japan. Macarthur's staff estimated 100% casualties for the first wave. Thank you Harry Truman.
Without those two bombs, there is no doubt the Japanese would have fought on until the last Jap soldier was dead.
In that respect, we also saved countless JAPANESE lives, a point that few seem to grasp.
And Horishima is such a modern-looking city today...
Although it was the right decision then and looking back. It still was the correct one to make. I have no problem with that decision, I would have made the same one as Truman did. Absolutely it saved countless amount of American lives, and saved even futher destruction of their county. This is a date that should be remembered, absolutely.
However, a tremendous amount of civilians were killed in the initial blast but from the fall out as well. I don’t think that having such a “cavalier and jovial” attitude towards this day is a very respectfull one. Considering...
An invasion would not have occured if we had let the Japanese know that they could emperor. Killing babies was not necessary.