Unfortunately, many people like Kevin Theis (Voice, Aug. 30, “Why Nagasaki?”) live in a world of half-truths.
To wit: There is no doubt that the imprisonment of U.S. Japanese citizens was a stain on our history. But this has absolutely zero to do with the Hiroshima-Nagasaki bombings.
Mr. Theis is obviously ignorant, as are many people who haven’t lived through a part of history and look at it through the backward end of a telescope, of many World War II facts. All one needs to know are the horrendous casualty tolls on Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Saipan. The list goes on and on of entire Japanese garrisons dying to a man, since surrender was the ultimate act of cowardice and shame.
How many more Japanese soldiers and civilians would have sacrificed themselves for the sacred homeland, taking with them at least an equal number of ours? To all of you historical myopics and half-informed breast-beaters, a pox on you. War is a filthy business that, sorry to say, requires filthy means. By bomb or knife, you’re just as dead.
