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Ustwo · 03-12-2004, 05:04 PM

I did a big paper on this many years ago.

Short answer, yes.

Long answer, yes damn straight.

I am personally very glad they dropped those bombs, my grandfather was a US Marine who survived Iwo Jima and was waiting on transport to invade the home island. There is a very good chance I would not be here unless those bombs were dropped. Also while perhaps my very exsistance depended on those bombs, this played no part in my conclusion that the bombs needed to be dropped, I didn't even know it until after I had written my paper. Unfortunetly explaining WHY they were needed would take said paper (which is lost along with the C-64) as it is not something you can do in just a few paragraphs.

But as a short answer, ANYONE who thinks the Japanese would have surrendered anytime soon without those bombs does not understand the Japanese of WWII.

03-12-2004, 05:04 PM	#14 (permalink)
Ustwo Pissing in the cornflakes	I did a big paper on this many years ago. Short answer, yes. Long answer, yes damn straight. I am personally very glad they dropped those bombs, my grandfather was a US Marine who survived Iwo Jima and was waiting on transport to invade the home island. There is a very good chance I would not be here unless those bombs were dropped. Also while perhaps my very exsistance depended on those bombs, this played no part in my conclusion that the bombs needed to be dropped, I didn't even know it until after I had written my paper. Unfortunetly explaining WHY they were needed would take said paper (which is lost along with the C-64) as it is not something you can do in just a few paragraphs. But as a short answer, ANYONE who thinks the Japanese would have surrendered anytime soon without those bombs does not understand the Japanese of WWII. __________________ Agents of the enemies who hold office in our own government, who attempt to eliminate our "freedoms" and our "right to know" are posting among us, I fear.....on this very forum. - host Obama - Know a Man by the friends he keeps.