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Okinawa. Attempted coup by junior officers. Difficult to untangle 73 years later. In the heat of war, nearly impossible. My main reason for agreeing with dropping the bombs, my father.pic.twitter.com/J97Hg7IH7k
Just a brief thing: nobody is actually arguing that a land invasion would have been preferable. The people who argue at least one bomb didn't need to be dropped (which is not what I'm arguing) argue that the war would have ended prior to invasion anyway.
I am sure that your father was told that the bombings saved his life, and I'm sure he believed it. Practically all serviceman in the Pacific were told this, again and again, as part of the effort to justify the bombing. But doing history means looking beyond the official lines.
Which is just to say: I get this response a lot from people. "My father/grandfather would have died and I wouldn't be here." I totally get where it's coming from. But it doesn't actually resolve the question — it takes more historical digging to figure out if it's *true* or not.
(And to make it crystal clear, because I am prone to being misunderstood: just because I think the "orthodox" narrative about why they dropped the bombs and what happened is wrong doesn't mean I think the opposite narrative is true. I acknowledge the complexities all around.)
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