Unfortunately, it was compulsory, and probably saved MILLIONS

In 1945, after the fearful tolls on Iwo Jima and Okinawa, after the the kamikazes from the Philippines to the seas off Japan, preparations under way for Operations Coronet and Olympic, the invasion of Japan, estimated 250,000 to 500,000 American deaths, and up to 4 million Japanese.

Even after the bomb was dropped 64 years ago today, and then on Nagasaki a nearly successful coup almost undid Emperor Hirohito's recognition of reality.

So thank you Harry Truman and Paul Tibbetts and men who did what history and destiny demanded to save Americans to return home, and in doing so made unnecessary the 4 million spears the Imperial Japanese Army had prepared for it's citizens to use on the foreign barbarians preparing to invade Japan.

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