I was born the year AFTER the end of WWII. My dad, a
hardened combat veteran of N. Africa, Italy & Germany,
who was committed to the “duration of the war, plus six
months” would have eventually been sent to Japan where
every Japanese man, woman & child were ordered by their
rulers to kill the Allied soldiers with ANY weapon at
their disposal. - TRUMAN made the decision to use the
bombs, then slept quite peacefully.
My Dad was an infantryman in Europe after V-E Day & was getting his unit ready to deploy to the Pacific when news came of the atomic bombings. I’m here for that reason.
We were stationed in Japan 1956-58. Nice, friendly people the Japanese we met were.
Still amazing how quickly the war fever in Japan in 1945 was extinguished by the word of their Emperor who basically said, “You now have my permission to surrender”.
Today’s guiltmongering in the schools is absolutely despicable. They need some education on Japanese supremacism and mass atrocities the Japs committed throughout Asia and, oh yes, the Japs had their own atomic research going at the time.
The Purple Heart that I received in 1969 on the Hospital Ship Sanctuary, was remaining stock from WWII!
How they are made, tells the date of manufacture.
My career Navy father, a member of the Old Yorktown swim team, was very glad that it was over.
Exactly. Imagine the left if Truman had been a Republican!