re: Seventy-three years ago today, August 9, 1945...

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With all the debate on how bad the atomic bombs were and were they worth it. Most people don't know that on March 9 ,1945 we fire bombed Tokyo. Killing over 100,000 civilians. Deadliest air raid in human history.

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And for the small weak minded SJW who say we dropped them on Japan because they were brown people keep in mind we bombed the frick out of Germany and burned cities off the map.. killing thousands and thousands.

My Dad, who turned 98 in June, still to this day gives zero fricks about the Japanese.

Go to Wiki, read The Rape Of Nanking. It will give any apologists a better idea of what our future held if the bombs were not dropped.

Disclaimer-It is a long read and the rest of your day will be ruined.

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Not really our country's proudest moment in mho

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Fair enough. Let’s put you in Truman’s shoes. You’re POTUS. The country is coming up on its fourth year of a war that’s cost billions (trillions in todays dollars) with already hundreds of thousands of deaths and countless more wounded. You’ve defeated Germany but still face an enemy in Japan who swears they’ll fight to the last man. And this enemy has proven that just recently via the blood baths at places like the Philippines, Okinawa, and Iwo Jima. Not to mention the thousands of suicide attacks they call Kamikaze. Now you’re being told that the final battle of the war will cost more American casualties than has been lost in both theaters of the entire war up to that point combined. One million American dead is what the experts are telling you. And as for the expected Japanese casualties, probably three times that high, most of which will be civilians. But you’re also told we have developed a bomb that can totally wipe out a city and probably end the war. Yes it will kill hundreds of thousands. But it will end the war without a long protracted invasion.

What do you do, Mr. President?

I think projections are American casualties would’ve been in the 400,000s and Japans in the millions and millions including civilians. I would have definitely dropped the bombs. People in recent generations haven’t felt the sting of war like the the people in WW 1 and 2 America. I think our worst years in the Iraq Afghanistan wars were in the low 1000s

We killed 100,000 people in one night in Tokyo during a firebombing raid. You people who are apologists for dropping the a bomb need to learn some history. The Asia pacific war had reached a level of violence by 1945 which is almost incomprehensible today

My Grandfather was a bombardier on a B-29 on Tinian then.

Bombing of Dresden

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My Grandfather was a bombardier on a B-29 on Tinian then.

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My best friends dad was also a navigator on a B-29, I think from the 20th AF.