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Originally Posted by LewisM
In a similar vein to the original posters comments.
I stood at the War Memorial in Honolulu and witnessed Japanese tourists taking photos of each other doing victory signs. I then witnessed the same behaviour at the Arizona Memorial.
That day caused me to rethink some values I held.
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While I do not know with certainty, I suspect the the intention was to show a Peace Sign and not a Victory Sign...I know many of my Japanese Colleagues often flash a friendly Peace Sign in photos...
Growing up in the USA offers a different insight into the hows and whys but I was taught the determining factor as to drop/don't drop was directly related to the expectations by Truman of the large number of casualities and death a homeland invasion would generate. After bomb one, the clear message heard in the USA was one of defiance and so it was believed that bomb two was necessary.