August 6th, 1945. Hiroshima. Nagasaki. WWII, the Pacific

August 6th, 2005. The media was filled with remorse and politically correct attitudes over the dropping of two atomic bombs on Japan. Admittedly, this was a horrible thing.

But not one of them addressed the horrors that the allied soldiers, and civilians endured at their hands, or the millions of lives that were spared on both sides, because of the bombing.

You don't know what I'm talking about? Maybe you should read more. Read "Flags of our Fathers," where a Marine on Iwo Jima who disappeared during the fighting is found after the island is taken, inside a cave, dead. His teeth had been smashed out, his penis cut off, and stuck in his mouth. Or maybe "Horror in the East," which talks about the atrocities played out on the occupied Chinese, the Japanese cannibalism that was reported by Australian soldiers.

Yes, dropping the atom bomb was a horrible thing to do, but it was necessary to stop other heinous acts.