My husband got a Purple Heart in Iraq in 2007. He recently found out it was produced in the 1940s during WWII. They produced 500,000 Purple Hearts in preparation for the American invasion of Japan because that’s the minimum number of casualties they expected. Every Purple Heart given since then was produced for that invasion. Those bombs…
My husband got a Purple Heart in Iraq in 2007. He recently found out it was produced in the 1940s during WWII. They produced 500,000 Purple Hearts in preparation for the American invasion of Japan because that’s the minimum number of casualties they expected. Every Purple Heart given since then was produced for that invasion. Those bombs were horrible, but they saved a lot of lives including the lives of millions of Japanese civilians that would have been killed in the invasion.
My husband got a Purple Heart in Iraq in 2007. He recently found out it was produced in the 1940s during WWII. They produced 500,000 Purple Hearts in preparation for the American invasion of Japan because that’s the minimum number of casualties they expected. Every Purple Heart given since then was produced for that invasion. Those bombs were horrible, but they saved a lot of lives including the lives of millions of Japanese civilians that would have been killed in the invasion.
Yes, this is my view as well, didn’t want to get into it in the piece…
God bless your brave husband!