Today’s “progressives” want to condemn Harry Truman for
using the atom bomb. (He was quoted as saying that he
made the decision to drop the bomb; went to sleep that
night and slept well.) - My father was already a
hardened combat veteran of N. Africa, Italy & Germany.
As such, he would have had to go on to Japan and
fight them on their own shores. - I wasn’t yet born, not
until 1946. I do not second guess Truman for shouldering
that responsibility and making that call. If he had not,
thousands more of both our troops and Japanese would have
died in an invasion of Japan. - Believe me, the
American troops who were on their way over there were
relieved it was over.
Some time before it was dropped machine guns were placed in the barracks grounds where my Grandfather was being worked as a slave in a mine on the home islands. He was told it was to kill them all when the first soldiers landed on the main islands.
84 pounds on liberation day...
I was fortunate to know a Japanese Carvo ship POW. Truly a living Hell. This is part of history that must never be relived.