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[alacattleman]

watch this if you aint seen it before,,, cant even imagine.. http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/ ... 6422311940

 

[3waycross]

It would be easy to let yourself feel sorry for them if not for the events of the 4 years preceding the dropping of that bomb. How many more Americans would have died trying to take the Japanese homeland. For that matter how many Japanese both civilian and militery would have died. Maybe a million or more. We would have carpet bombed them into the stone age if neccessry.

 

[TexasBred]

It would be easy to let yourself feel sorry for them if not for the events of the 4 years preceding the dropping of that bomb. How many more Americans would have died trying to take the Japanese homeland. For that matter how many Japanese both civilian and militery would have died. Maybe a million or more. We would have carpet bombed them into the stone age if neccessry.

3 way I can't confirm it but have always been told that the purple hearts given out in all the wars since WWII were all made at the time the military thought an invasion of the Japanese homeland would be necessary so they made up huge numbers of them. Wonder how many they still have unused ?? That should give us some idea of what it would have cost.

 

[VanC]

It would be easy to let yourself feel sorry for them if not for the events of the 4 years preceding the dropping of that bomb. How many more Americans would have died trying to take the Japanese homeland. For that matter how many Japanese both civilian and militery would have died. Maybe a million or more. We would have carpet bombed them into the stone age if neccessry.

3 way I can't confirm it but have always been told that the purple hearts given out in all the wars since WWII were all made at the time the military thought an invasion of the Japanese homeland would be necessary so they made up huge numbers of them. Wonder how many they still have unused ?? That should give us some idea of what it would have cost.

Nearly 500,000 Purple Heart medals were manufactured in anticipation of the casualties resulting from the invasion of Japan. To the present date, all the American military casualties of the sixty years following the end of World War II—including the Korean and Vietnam Wars—have not exceeded that number. In 2003, there were still 120,000 of these Purple Heart medals in stock. There are so many in surplus that combat units in Iraq and Afghanistan are able to keep Purple Hearts on-hand for immediate award to wounded soldiers on the field.

 

[alacattleman]

It would be easy to let yourself feel sorry for them if not for the events of the 4 years preceding the dropping of that bomb. How many more Americans would have died trying to take the Japanese homeland. For that matter how many Japanese both civilian and militery would have died. Maybe a million or more. We would have carpet bombed them into the stone age if neccessry.

well, i guess the older i get the more history means,,

 

[3waycross]

It would be easy to let yourself feel sorry for them if not for the events of the 4 years preceding the dropping of that bomb. How many more Americans would have died trying to take the Japanese homeland. For that matter how many Japanese both civilian and militery would have died. Maybe a million or more. We would have carpet bombed them into the stone age if neccessry.

well, i guess the older i get the more history means,,

I don't disagree with you a bit. I just don't feel sorry for the Japanese. All of my family that fought in the war but one , fought in the Pacific. I have heard the stories my whole life.

The sad part about History is we never seem to tire of repeating out mistakes.

 

[alacattleman]

It would be easy to let yourself feel sorry for them if not for the events of the 4 years preceding the dropping of that bomb. How many more Americans would have died trying to take the Japanese homeland. For that matter how many Japanese both civilian and militery would have died. Maybe a million or more. We would have carpet bombed them into the stone age if neccessry.

well, i guess the older i get the more history means,,

I don't disagree with you a bit. I just don't feel sorry for the Japanese. All of my family that fought in the war but one , fought in the Pacific. I have heard the stories my whole life.

The sad part about History is we never seem to tire of repeating out mistakes.

i understand that its the power and destruction that bomb

 

[Ryder]

It would be easy to let yourself feel sorry for them if not for the events of the 4 years preceding the dropping of that bomb. How many more Americans would have died trying to take the Japanese homeland. For that matter how many Japanese both civilian and militery would have died. Maybe a million or more. We would have carpet bombed them into the stone age if neccessry.

well, i guess the older i get the more history means,,

I don't disagree with you a bit. I just don't feel sorry for the Japanese. All of my family that fought in the war but one , fought in the Pacific. I have heard the stories my whole life.

The sad part about History is we never seem to tire of repeating out mistakes.

You speak true. We never learn and they never forget.