07-12-2017, 05:34 PM
(07-12-2017, 05:24 PM)GMDino Wrote: I've always been a history guy. But not so much war stuff. I did take an interesting course in warfare in college. Our teach was a Screaming Eagle and he knew how to tell a story!
But when it came to WWII I was always more interested in the European theater mostly. Until I toured the WWII Museum I mentioned above.
When I got back to our hotel room I called my dad and told him that I had two thoughts after spending the day there:
1) Seeing what those soldiers went through, what the world and civilians went through, you either come out believing in a god or believing there is NO god.
2) The Japanese were awful, horrible people. Evil. And while I have remorse for the innocents that were killed when we dropped the bombs it was the nly way to defeat them. And if they had to have had to drop one more or four more it would have been worth it.
I think what concerns me most as I learn more about imperial Japan is that I could see North Korea trying to emulate that. I don't think they'd get nearly as far, but in the nuclear age it could be even more devastating.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
