Sixty Five Years

I’ve heard that President Truman claimed he never lost a night’s sleep over his decision to drop those atomic bombs on Japan. I make to pretense of knowing what the right decision would have been, whether to drop the bombs or to mount an invasion of the home islands, a horrific choice, a horrific choice, no doubt. That said, that thought, that felt, I just cannot understand his statement…

And I pray I never will…