Which Reminds Me

Yes, we realize that our high school classmate from Japan may have mixed feelings about the atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as he was explaining in his oral report. And yet we U.S. citizens consider ourselves loyal to the very government that authorized the use of such immense violence against Japan. We did not bomb Korea. We were bombing Japan, obviously. Why would we authorize such violent measures against Japan? I don't know. It was a war thing, obviously. I was not the person authorized to push the violence button, clearly, but certainly I can't say that it what was right or wrong. Given the circumstances of war, maybe it was just the lesser of two evils. I wouldn't know anything about that. It wasn't my problem.