They probably don’t even know about the firebombing of Japan’s cities.
Some of us grew up surrounded by the vets of WWII and we tend to take the events of that war as common knowledge. But someone now in college would have been born around the time of the first Gulf War and they weren’t glued to a black and white television watching Victory at Sea.
I had a history teacher at a high school tell me we fought the Germans, not the Japanese in WWII. Sad.
Firebombing of German cities too. The deaths from the firebombings over the years killed far more civilians than the two bombs did.
The story is that an Allied bomb hit the barn of some farm near a German factory. That gave Hitler the excuse to send his V2 to London, as we had started attacking “civilians”. Not sure how true it is.
After the fighting on Okinawa(?), with Japanese civilians killing themselves, and military fighting to the death, many thought it would be the same on Japan. Lots of dead on both sides. But mainly Japanese.
“Some of us grew up surrounded by the vets of WWII and we tend to take the events of that war as common knowledge. But someone now in college would have been born around the time of the first Gulf War and they weren’t glued to a black and white television watching Victory at Sea.”
Perfect.
Funny how those of us who are one generation separated from those who fought and read or were alive while it was going on have one concept, and those two and three generations later drink the kool-aid.