Dropping of the atomic bombs... saved lives?

Yes. And now, 2 years on from your making that observation, he or she has still only ever posted that one single message on this site!

 

So many have already responded with my answer and I thank them for expressing it. My father and mother took some heat in their lives for being in support of dropping the bombs. My father and mother informed all of their children that they did not believe my dads assignments in the planned invasion of Japan was a survivable assignment. He had already served in Hawaii and the Philappines and was en route to Japan when the bomb was dropped. This he believed saved his life. The nuclear bomb was the reason he gave for living to raise us kids in his family. I believe this is true for many many baby boomers.

 

Exactly how I've always felt - I am one of those baby boomers. (I was born in 1961, so officially the very last year of the baby boom!)

My father's circumstances were different from your father's, but the principle is the same. He was being held in Thailand as a prisoner of the Japanese, and we now know that all POWs in that area had been scheduled for mass extermination on 21 August 1945 (the expected date of the Allies' invasion of Thailand). If the bombs had been dropped two weeks later, they would almost certainly have been too late.

My apologies to those who have seen me make much the same point on other threads. However, Victor Gomez's post struck such a chord with me that I could not restrain myself.