I agree that using the bombs was necessary to end the war. I had a cousin and a neighbor fighting in Europe and they were preparing to be sent to The Pacific to fight there.
I meant to get across that at that young age I actually cheered when 100,000 people,mostly civilians (women, elderly,and children),were killed. To me,in retrospect,there is something sad about that.
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The same women, children and elderly who would be running a bamboo spear through your cousin or my Dad, who was due to be called up if the Bomb had not been dropped. I’m not a ‘’war lover’’ nor do I hate the Japanese or the Germans of this day and age. (I do hate Muslims though). What I will not tolerate under any circumstance is moral and/or historical revisionism and moral equivocation that always seeks to advance either outright or subliminally that somehow America was wrong to use the Atomic Bomb and that bombing the German city of Dresden was a ‘’war crime’’. I had a number of uncles who fought in Europe and the Pacific, some were wounded but thank God they all made it home. They’re all gone now. I have also had the honor of getting to know quite a number of other WW2 veterans and it is in their interest that as long as there is breath in me I will challenge loudly and long ANY attempt at moral and historic revisionism or equivocation concerning Americas conduct in winning World War Two. And I’m not in the habit of being gracious about it either. I once told some stupid old peacenik hag over the phone that if I could I’d reach through the phone and pull her lungs out. She had written a letter to our local paper here in NJ(owned by the Gannett news Org) and it was filled with the usual crap about America being a terrorist for using the Bomb and all that other bs. These vets and my now deceased family members fought through a six-year cataclysm to give us and others the freedoms we enjoy. Believe me, to a man and woman they sure would have wished to have been doing something else in the halcyon days of their youth then what they had to do but they knew it had to be done and thank God they did it. The least we can do for them is make sure the story is told straight since many of them are no longer here to tell it themselves.