re: FDR was an awful president and MacArthur was an awful general.

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She said a zillion times had he not dropped those bombs, my daddy and thousands of other young Marines and soldiers would no doubt have died during invasions of Japan.

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I can relate. My daddy was on the second occupation ship into Tokyo. I guess that doesn't mean he would have been on the second ship if there had been an invasion instead of dropping the bombs, but I'm glad Truman made that call. An invasion of the main Japanese islands would have resulted in a huge loss of life.