This month HBO is showing “White Light/Black Rain,” a one-sided account of the WWII atomic bombings of Japan. The documentary main theme and goal is to show the horrifying infliction of death and suffering the US placed on the Japanese civilians and the atomic survivors. Like clockwork on the August anniversary, the liberal media puts America back on public trial, and finding us guilty of mass murder and suffering. They never show the hundreds-of-thousand of civilians and Allied POWs Japan killed in China, Philippines, and Southeast Asia. I researched and visited many WWII sites in the Pacific and Western Europe while stationed overseas. There is no doubt President Truman made the ONLY decision he could have made. As one historian has stated, “…Imagine the public outcry once it was known America having spent billions on the A-bomb’s development, had the capability of ending the war a year early, preventing over a million US causalities as well as millions of other deaths, had we NOT used the bomb…”
