Ok, let's get this TexAgs tradition out of the way.
This is 6-August, which of course was the day we dropped Little Boy on Hiroshima. The argument is always whether we should have dropped that bomb (and Fat Boy 3 days later). I have always contended that Truman made the correct decision. To quote Gene Hackman from the movie Crimson Tide, drop that f****r, twice.
There is no way to know how many of us would not be here today had it not been for those bombings. How many grandfathers or fathers would have died in Operation Downfall? We can debate the well known estimate of a million casualties, but given the ferocity with which Japanese soldiers fought in various island campaigns leading up to August 1945, I think that number is a good guess when you consider that American soldiers would have been on Japanese homeland and fighting against any Japanese person capable of wielding any form of weaponry.
This is 6-August, which of course was the day we dropped Little Boy on Hiroshima. The argument is always whether we should have dropped that bomb (and Fat Boy 3 days later). I have always contended that Truman made the correct decision. To quote Gene Hackman from the movie Crimson Tide, drop that f****r, twice.
There is no way to know how many of us would not be here today had it not been for those bombings. How many grandfathers or fathers would have died in Operation Downfall? We can debate the well known estimate of a million casualties, but given the ferocity with which Japanese soldiers fought in various island campaigns leading up to August 1945, I think that number is a good guess when you consider that American soldiers would have been on Japanese homeland and fighting against any Japanese person capable of wielding any form of weaponry.
