Atomic Coincidence

 A couple of weeks ago I finished reading Ian W. Toll's Pacific Trilogy, and I was talking to my #1🌞 Jimmy about it, especially focusing on the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He wanted to know what I thought about the "necessity" of dropping the bombs, whether it was justifiable in light of all of the lives that would have been lost in fighting on the Japanese mainland, etcetera. I told him that I didn't think it was justifiable, for one thing because Japan was already on its knees, its economy was collapsing and its army and navy had been crippled. They didn't even have enough fuel to keep their ships at sea going. He seemed troubled by what I had to say... perhaps because my answer accentuated the immorality of dropping the bombs...but since I'd just read a couple of thousand pages on the subject, he seemed to defer to me.

Then today he sent me a video from a fellow named Thomas Sowell which talked about how there were "naive" Americans who journeyed to Hiroshima to apologize for the United States dropping the bomb, and how their were "revisionists" who minimized the projected casualties that would have been incurred had the US invaded Japan, and how these "liars" wouldn't admit that there would have been a million US deaths had we invaded...and another half millions Brits, not to mention the Japanese casualties. 

I sent back my answer, which did not agree with Mr. Sowell, and pointed out some possible flaws in his arguments.

Then I turned my tv back on to finish watching a John Coltrane documentary I had been watching before I got his message. And about a minute after I turned it on, there was a picture of Coltrane in Japan, going to a shrine in Nagasaki and laying a wreath there, then folding his hands and praying.

That was unexpected.