The atomic bombs were terrible, but their use meant that my father and my uncles, and ten million other fathers, sons, uncles got to come home. It also meant that fifteen million Japanese got to wake up alive and to live good, lives filled with their families, and love. We did it. And good, bad or indifferent, it was necessary; the Japs were not going to surrender, not even after the second bomb at Nagasaki. As far as apologies are concerned, until the Japanese face their own blame for a war they started in 1937; the hundreds of thousands of Chinese and Koreans who were murdered in that war; the inhumane treatment of POW’s during that war, and the murder of unarmed civilians as well as military prisoners; the cartoon is just that a cartoon, a travesty and a lie.
The funniest bumper sticker I’ve seen read:.. " If you don’t like the way I drive, get the hell off the sidewalk."