RW> RN> I still have mixed emotions about his okaying the use of the A-bomb.
RW> RN> I don't know what I would have done in that situation and am glad
RW> RN> that's one decision I didn't have to make.  Part of me says he did
RW> RN> the right thing, while the other part isn't so sure.  It's difficult
RW> RN> to make decisions like that which affect the world.  On the one hand,
RW> RN> you don't want to kill civilians and on the other, you don't want to
RW> RN> lose anymore American lives. My guess is that Truman remembered Pearl
RW> RN> Harbor and that was the deciding factor.

RW>I'm sure he took into account the 'rape of Nanking' and other such
RW>brutalities. Dropping that bomb helped to save lives, more than it did to
RW>kill people. I would have had a hard time dealing with that decision too,
RW>as I assume Truman did. But in the end, dropping that bomb meant that at
RW>least 1 million GIs wouldn't die trying to invade a country whose people
RW>were known to die fighting. The Nagasaki bomb was probably even harder on
RW>him.

We can add the Battan Death March. I knew tow survivors buth of which
lowst theri Militarty Nurse Wives in the March, And their their Fervor
to Fight to the Death for the Emperior on the Pacific Isles.
IT was one of the Best Presidential Decisions in the History of this
Country to use the bomb.
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