Hi, Larry - sorry I was sarcastic, I can see that, given your experiences and especially in these times that you might have assumed I was serious.

I wholeheartedly agree that prolonged wars are bad for everyone. Though I'm not sure of the targetting decision in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, those two drops certainly ended Japan's war in a hurry, and I'm sure reduced the total number of casualties on both sides.

The incidents your Uncle spoke of were very powerful, thank you for sharing them. It's impossible to really imagine the horror of such situations. My father was in the Medical Corps stationed in London in WWII and saw hundreds of young men coming back from the fronts in really awful condition. He very much didn't like to talk about it, and I'm sure he would have agreed on any reasonable tactics that would shorten a war.