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Tilted Cat Head
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Location: Manhattan, NY
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Originally Posted by Willravel
I'll explain, briefly. Japan was prepared to surrender with the only condition being that the Emperor went unharmed. This was back in April of 1945. The US knew this and rejected it because, well, we wanted to punish them for Pearl and such. The horrible thing is that after Japan was allowed to surrender, the US actually left the Emperor unharmed and used him to help stablize and rebuild the nation.
The point I was making above? Dropping the bombs saved no lives and was done after months of Japan attempting to surrender. It was not for some greater good at all. "Monsterous or not, it ended the war didn't it?" No, it didn't.
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Please don't disrespect all the Filipinos that died in the Japanese occupation of the Philippines. The Japanese brutality that ensued was legendary which included the beheading of my grandfather's oldest brother. To add insult to injury before beheading him and several others, they bled them so that they could use their blood for transfusions to injured Japanese soldiers.
My family lived in caves for a period of time hiding from the Japanese.
War is war. It's not meant to be pretty, but to cast off this ideology that the Japanese were trying to surrender and that they deserved better treatment. Please give me a freaking break.
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