re: 75 years ago right now....The city of Hiroshima disappeared from the face of the earth....

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Terrible but ironically it probably saved many more lives than it took.

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No probably about it. The estimated death toll of Operation Downfall is conservatively listed at 5 million people, including Japanese citizens and American POWs who would have been executed in some of the most horrific ways known to man as soon as the invasion began.

That was an evil, barbaric society and dropping the bombs was necessary to bring them to their knees.

There is a memorial museum in Hiroshima. I've been told it's quite a moving experience. I've spent a good bit of time in Japan and I always regret not having gone to the museum or the bomb site.

I was listening to the radio this morning and they were talking about this very topic and how books by Howard Zinn who is anti American are being taught now in middle and high schools not just college.

He (Zinn) says it didn't save any lives. The end result by his books being taught before college is being displayed in cities all over the country especially Portland and Seattle.

I teach in a small town in Southern New Jersey where Trump received the highest vote per capita in NJ and his books are in our curriculum. I am not a History teacher but if its being taught in my school its being taught every where (public not private).