Agree or Disagree - The Bombing of Hiroshima/Nagasaki is a black and white issue.

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12. I've never thought it fair nor particularly representative to render a hindsight opinion.

I can say without reservation that I opposed the Iraq War--an event I was fully present for and which I can put in context... Obviously I still oppose it.

I think it is very hard to say what one might think about an event and related decision one never experienced, during a time one never lived.

I've had occasion to visit/work in some of the sites in the Pacific that tourists don't tend to find--but aging WWII seek out one last time--to remember. Through them I learned some of the horror that even Spielberg and Hanks haven't captured on film. That doesn't excuse the horror of HIroshima and Nagasaki, by any means, nor that of Dresden, but it does underscore how damn difficult that decision would be for those in power at the time, versus those of us not then alive, but looking back.