So much discussion of topics like this tiday are completely out of touch with what life was like during those times. For all sides involved, their lives and the lives of everyone they cared about were at stake. Japan had killed millions of civilians and committed horrible acts of rape and torture that make ISIS look like the Salvation Army. They had used germ and chemical Warfare and were planning to spread plague through the western US to kill as many civilians as possible. The US dropped some Atom bombs. All of it was bad, but there is no need to dwell on any of it. It was a different time with different realities for those living in it. War, true war, is a brutal thing.








