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Originally posted by TheSaint
Its a stupid question, revisionist history notwithstanding.
My father, still living, was a fighter pilot in the navy and we have discussed this many times.
Fact: We were dying like flies on each island as we made our way to Japan, as many as 25,000 americans dead per island.
Fact: Invasion plans called for one million dead Japanese after we invaded the homeland (mostly civillians) and 100,000 or more additional dead Americans.
Fact: It was not well understood then that low level radiation was dangerous.
Fact: The nuke saved at least a million Japanese lives, and many Americans. Anyone with a brain would appreciate that another 2 years of war would not have been good for the Japanese, who refused to surrender even after the first atom bomb fell.
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Now c'mon now! There are WAAAY too many facts there! You know that FACTS are not tolerated here on GFY whenever a serious topic about world events is being discussed! We just won't stand for it!
We will only deal with crackpot theories, revisionist history, and slanted, single-view sources of information. Any statements resulting from an in-depth, board-reaching knowledge of actual events will please be expunged from the record imedeately!
