REPATRIATION

[CINDERS]

Though I may surmise Merle you would have conducted yourself with restraint and dignity for what that monument signified, one could say it was a most horrid weapon to release on human beings it was suggested a naval blockade similar to what Germany faced in WWI may hold the key but that would be a protracted affair and most probably more inhuman that dropping that thing twice.
I know there are victims still dying from the affects of the radiation released on those occasions and looking back I think that Truman made the right choice as in the long run and the bigger picture it saved horrendous casualties from both sides one figure quoted in a doco I have recently watched about this affair of the bomb put US casualties at 2.5 million from attacking and fighting on mainland Japan.
In this doco it explains that Truman was informed discretely in a meeting he was in with Stalin about the project Trinity detonation the fact is Uncle Joe knew about it anyway so it really was not a secret the thing was the US did not have the capability to drop a 3rd one as they had no sufficient amount of U235 or Plutonium to manufacture another weapon for another 9 months.
Anyway a bit off track but for me personally any war grave site I visit mainly friends and not to many foes is shown respect as they were all soldiers once.........