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My grandfather was going to be in the first wave of the invasion of Japan had the bombs not been dropped. Would he have died? Who knows? It certainly sheds light on my perspective of the legitimacy of the bombings, though. I might not have been here had they not been dropped.
What it really comes down to, though, is an "us vs. them" mentality. That, ultimately, is the terrible mentality that war dictates. I'm glad to be alive. I'm glad that it wasn't them that survived instead of my grandfather. Could it have been avoided? Perhaps. But there's no doubt that they started it.
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