I did not remember about the children, very sad.Almost as sad as the 500,000 Japanese civilians killed by bombs. Seriously, the US was lucky enough to observe the first rule of winning a War, or (even more important) the Peace that comes afterwards: "fight on somebody else's field." ;-)
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1