{"id":8201,"date":"2010-08-06T21:56:21","date_gmt":"2010-08-07T04:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/?p=8201"},"modified":"2010-08-06T21:57:33","modified_gmt":"2010-08-07T04:57:33","slug":"peace-through-victory-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/?p=8201","title":{"rendered":"Peace Through Victory Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While some mourn our &#8220;inhumanity&#8221; as expressed on Aug 6th, 1945, some do not.\u00c2\u00a0 My father-in-law was home on 30 days leave after spending about six years in Europe fighting the Nazis as a member of the Royal Canadian Artillery.\u00c2\u00a0 At the end of the 30 days leave he was to report to Vancouver for transport to the front with Japan.\u00c2\u00a0 He won&#8217;t bad mouth the Bomb.<\/p>\n<p>The estimated 1,000,000 casualties expected on THE ALLIED SIDE ALONE during the invasion of the Japanese Home Island won&#8217;t bad mouth the Bomb.<\/p>\n<p>The Japanese were expected to suffer between 2,000,000 and 5,000,000 casualties at least.<\/p>\n<p>A terrible weapon?\u00c2\u00a0 Of course.\u00c2\u00a0 It sure saved a lot of lives on both sides, though.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/michaelgraham.com\/archives\/happy-peace-through-victory-day\/\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/michaelgraham.com\/archives\/happy-peace-through-victory-day\/\">http:\/\/michaelgraham.com\/archives\/happy-peace-through-victory-day\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>~Curtis in \/\\\/\\onmTana! {=-{&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While some mourn our &#8220;inhumanity&#8221; as expressed on Aug 6th, 1945, some do not.\u00c2\u00a0 My father-in-law was home on 30 days leave after spending about six years in Europe fighting the Nazis as a member of the Royal Canadian Artillery.\u00c2\u00a0 At the end of the 30 days leave he was to report to Vancouver for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holiday","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8201"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8204,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8201\/revisions\/8204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}