I do find myself often sympathizing with the defeated Imperial Japanese citizen and soldiers. The most disrespectful thing we could do for all sides is forget. That dwarfs the body count at Hiroshima & Nagasaki combined. They vowed to fight to the last, and had they known that we had no more nukes, they would have.Ī conservative estimate was 500,000 Allied and 1,000,000 Japanese casualties. The Japanese were not surrender monkeys like those cowards across the channel from you. For both our servicemen and the Japanese who perished.
