23 Jun 09 09:32, Roger Nelson wrote to Roy Witt:


 RW>> Eight year old children have their own ideas about our leaders.

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

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

                R\%/itt

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the victory itself.

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