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Originally Posted by pcardude
It is refreshing to see someone who thinks about this in relation to a person and not a bomb. I personally knew someone who worked on the Manhattan Project. She spent most of her later years experiencing remorse and regret for being part of it. She told me about having to study radiation effects on animals and she broke down and cried, I remember it vividly even though I was young back then. One persons salvation can be the destruction of another.
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I understand.
However, Yong Lee's father was a slave...his destruction was assured without the intervention of the bomb, he and his future family histories dust. He was treated like an animal and would have died like one.
This was not his doing.
Japan committed atrocities on a horrific scale before the US entered the war.
I do not romanticize war. I find that the decisions made in times of great peril are much more complex than the pulling of the ultimate trigger, the dropping of the bomb.
I do know that it saved Mr. Lee' life, a slaves life and that he had a great and prosperous family.