just after Hiroshima and Nagasaki "exploded" in the blood and seared skin of hundreds of thousands of innocent Japanese civilians, women, children, and the elderly indiscriminately burned to a crisp. Yay America, the only country to actually ever use nuclear weapons on people and then have the stones tell other countries they can't have them.

Joy at the incineration of children. Nice people.

that had the Japanese nation not attacked the United States, the events you describe would not have taken place.

I realize that in 1945, it was a fantastic celebration. What had happened -- entirely without the American people's knowledge -- had not even been made known yet, only that a terrible bomb had been used. To them, it must have seemed a great time and, in view of the time, rightly so.

But now is not 1945, and we now know what that terrible bomb did. Hindsight, progress, and compassion have tempered our view of things both for the good and, in some cases, the bad. Now we know that these are days of mourning and should be. The end of the war in Japan is a day to remember those who died fighting for their countries in a horrible conflagration that we should hope we will never see the likes of again.

And I forcefully reject any notion of "They deserved it" put forth against any nation, by any other, at any time. This isn't how I've always viewed this, but it is how I've come to view it now.