TODAY'S ANNIVERSARY - AT 7:29 A.M. ET:  Today marks the 64th anniversary of the use of the atomic bomb at Hiroshima.  Prepare yourself for the usual pieties. 

One can legitimately debate whether the bomb should have been used.  However, as one observer pointed out, we can see films and photos of the unfortunate victims of the attack.  We don't have films and photos of those who lived because of it. 

A recent poll on American attitudes toward the use of the bomb produced a disturbing result.  Yes, 61% approved of the decision to drop the bomb, and only 22% called it wrong.  (Any leftist position on any issue usually yields a number between 20 and 30 percent.)

But only 50% of those 18 to 34 approved.

And only 49% of Democrats approved. 

Those results reflect what young people are taught in school.  They also reflect the leftward path of the Democratic Party.  It was a Democratic president, Harry S. Truman, who made the decision to use the bomb.  Truman couldn't come close to the Democratic nomination for president today.

Those who think the decision was wrong might chat up the son or daughter, or grandson or granddaughter, of a soldier who was in the Pacific on August 6, 1945.  The person you'll be talking with might not have existed had President Truman decided otherwise, and the Pacific war continued, with its ghastly toll in American soldiers...and Japanese civilians.

August 6, 2009