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REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR

greenmonster said:
At the time they felt completely justified in their actions. And proud of the death and destruction they caused.
I’d be curious to know what runs through their minds nowadays.
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Pearl Harbor or Hiroshima? US Americans or Japanese. See where I'm headed with this?

I'd guess that it would be difficult to find a Japanese citizen that would be able to separate their feelings and views of Pearl Harbor from those of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In the late 80's and early 90's I interacted with more than a few Japanese citizens that supported the attack on Pearl Harbor while unable to understand why the US dropped atomic weapons on Japanese soil.

One could argue that the attack on Pearl Harbor was primarily focused on military targets and that the same cannot be said about Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
 
We dropped the bomb on Hiroshima because the alternative to that meant invading Japan and the sacrifice of hundreds of thousands of American lives. Millions, in fact. The Japanese were prepared to fight to the death. Men, boys, women girls and the elderly. The entire population of Japan was prepared to die. Not only did dropping the bombs save millions of American lives but it also saved millions of Japanese lives as well. Fact.

Watch the episodes about the Japanese in the documentary I mentioned above. It’s very enlightening.
 
^^^ That is certainly one narrative.
 
Also, the dropping of those two bombs very likely prevented any country from actually using them. Once people saw the IMMENSE power of atomic weapons, no one wanted to use them. I believe those two bombs have actually kept us safe from nuclear weapons all these years. Though the dark cloud of their use still hangs over us.

One of the most powerful scenes in the documentary came when a young girl, now an old woman, recalls reaching out to grab her mother and as soon as she touches her, her mother crumbles into dust.

Oh, and the Japanese were far more cruel and demented than the Nazis.
 
The bombs were dropped on undamaged cities, and treated like a Petri dish.
To fully document the destruction and fallout carryover, of the one bomb, per city.
Still science, in the face of war.
 
Enchanter said:
Pearl Harbor or Hiroshima? US Americans or Japanese. See where I'm headed with this?

I'd guess that it would be difficult to find a Japanese citizen that would be able to separate their feelings and views of Pearl Harbor from those of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In the late 80's and early 90's I interacted with more than a few Japanese citizens that supported the attack on Pearl Harbor while unable to understand why the US dropped atomic weapons on Japanese soil.

One could argue that the attack on Pearl Harbor was primarily focused on military targets and that the same cannot be said about Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Americans are obsessed with that attack, agreed, there were far far far more vicious attacked during the war with casualty counts surpassing pearl Harbor by many orders of magnitude.

What makes it so significant for me is that it guaranteed the Axis powers would lose.

Prior to that, that was not the likely outcome.
 
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