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billonthefarm
Posted 8/6/2020 15:19 (#8419108 - in reply to #8418808)
Subject: RE: Hiroshima


Farmington IL
Clay SEIA - 8/6/2020 12:38

stlcardsfan - 8/6/2020 12:27

The bataan death March and the way the Japanese tortured the people in Manchuria in the late 30's should give anybody with a reasonable or rational brain power some insight in what they where capable of doing.


Not to mention what happened on Saipan and Okinawa, where thousands of their own friendly civilians were either induced to commit suicide or forced into American fire. That horror was a very fresh reality for those who were about to plan and execute the invasion of Japan itself.


My grandfather was a sergeant in a mortar platoon In a company sent to hold a hill during the battle of Luzon. They spent the first night fighting for their lives in hand to hand close quarter combat. His company sustained 90% casualties that night. He was promoted to Lt. and was part of the occupation force that went to Japan and would have been in the first wave to land on mainland Japan. He never forgave the Japanese as a people for dragging him half way around the world and killing or maiming his friends. He rarely talked of what he had seen as he never wanted us to have to live with what he had. He felt that there was no question that dropping the bomb was the right decision.
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