‘Why it was considered necessary’

It is well to remember the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as on the front page of the Aug. 8 Recorder, but also it should be remembered why it was considered necessary! Before we get too teary-eyed about the deaths of maybe 200,000 Japanese it should be remembered what an invasion of the Japanese home islands with conventional weapons would have cost in lives — for them and us — before Wolrd War II was finally ended. Probably many more than 200,000!

And lets remember.too, the rape of Nanking and the many, many other atrocities committed by the Japanese who released the dogs of war in the first place. The water in Pearl Harbor is still being polluted by the oil leaking from that rusting tomb the battleship Arizona.

Fred Schindler

Orange