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To: Above My Pay Grade
"The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki saved hundreds of thousands of American lives and millions of Japanese lives."

True, perhaps mine. The first was the demo and we see that didn't work.

15 posted on 08/06/2015 8:42:26 AM PDT by ex-snook (To conquer use Jesus, not bombs.)
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To: ex-snook

Mine too, indirectly.

My old man was in the South Pacific on an LST when the bombs were dropped. He figured his odds of living through the invasion of the home islands would have been 50/50 at best, having to be on a ship that ran right up to the shore to drop off tanks. I believe that my siblings and myself owe a great debt of gratitude to Harry for doing what he did.

To quote Capt. Frank Ramsey from “Crimson Tide”

“Drop that f***er, twice.”


52 posted on 08/06/2015 10:19:46 AM PDT by Big Red Clay (Greetings from the Big Red State)
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