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To: Cogito who wrote (61557)	4/24/2008 3:37:12 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542131

As I said, it's not a completely black and white issue. It is if your father survived the war because he did not have to participate in the invasion of Japan. Japan is much better off because of what happened. Nobody can argue that war is nice. It's not black and white except as I cited above.

To: Cogito who wrote (61557)	4/24/2008 3:46:01 PM
From: slacker711	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542131

But there were far more than 120,000 innocent civilians killed in the firebombings of the major cities of Japan and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Overall, Japan lost more than 580,000 civilians in WWII. Of those, they lost nearly between 75,000 and 140,000 in the invasion of Okinawa. Why do you think that the invasion of Japan would be anything but a large multiple of those figures? Everything I have ever read indicates that Japan would have fought even more fanatically for their homeland and were training civilians to participate in the fighting. Slacker