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<blockquote data-quote="Route 66" data-source="post: 3261988" data-attributes="member: 40816">and even more civilians would have ultimately died had Truman not made the decision to drop the bombs. Hirohito vowed to fight til the bitter end. It was the devastation he observed at Hiroshima and Nagasaki which made him suddenly change his tune. Far more Japanese civilians were killed in previous conventional B-29 firebombing raids than from the two atomic bombs combined. There’s no doubt it was a terrible thing to have happen - but I believe that it was a terrible thing that had to happen. After all, it wasn’t us who who rained devastation on their naval fleet as most of their sailors were asleep early one Sunday morning just for <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/group1/censored2.gif"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":censored2:" title="Censored2&nbsp; &nbsp; :censored2:" data-shortname=":censored2:" />s ‘n giggles.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Route 66, post: 3261988, member: 40816"] and even more civilians would have ultimately died had Truman not made the decision to drop the bombs. Hirohito vowed to fight til the bitter end. It was the devastation he observed at Hiroshima and Nagasaki which made him suddenly change his tune. Far more Japanese civilians were killed in previous conventional B-29 firebombing raids than from the two atomic bombs combined. There’s no doubt it was a terrible thing to have happen - but I believe that it was a terrible thing that [I]had[/I] to happen. After all, it wasn’t [I]us[/I] who who rained devastation on [I]their[/I] naval fleet as most of their sailors were asleep early one Sunday morning just for :censored:s ‘n giggles. [/QUOTE]

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