Harry S Truman (no period after "S" by the way) = Tough Son of a Bitch!

My father was a Marine in the Pacific Theater and fought in some pretty serious battles.

Though he'd never talk about the war much, especially combat, etc., he did say, as did my grandmother, that Truman saved his and countless other Marine lives by saying to hell with it and dropping the bomb.

So hats off to Harry.

Screw Adolph.

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Posted by Hazelnut

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Posted on 1/20/17 at 3:24 pm to SuperSaint

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no one in the books you can paint without flaws (even Reagan), but when it mattered Truman had the balls to say frick the PC shite I'm dropping the bombs and saving American boots from being on the mainland.

He dropped the first one when Japan was already essentially defeated. Things were turning that way. That "second D Day" wasn't an actual alternative. Japan was very weak by then.

"I voiced to him my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives." -Dwight D Eisenhower

The second one was just a big F U. Also completely unnecessary.

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Posted by Hazelnut

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Posted on 1/20/17 at 3:26 pm to Tigris

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That's much more on Stalin than Truman.

Stalin and FDR were very civil with each other even though they disagreed with each other on how to run things. There was trust that was beginning to build. Then Truman came in and acted like an arse and tensions grew. He also just dropped the bomb to show up the Russians.

ETA: Sorry for the bump. I just now saw responses to my posts. I've been busy at work all day.

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