RKMBs Forums .::Important::. Politics and Current Events Was it the right decision to drop the bomb?

My brother and I were discussing this the other day. We were both surprised by how little people knew of actual history and went instead with a revisionist view that decided that America should apologize for everything it's ever done. The whole BS about the fact that we should have bombed a military target is overwhelmingly ignorant of the facts. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were military targets. Nagasaki held the shipyards used to build the Imperial Navy while Hiroshima was the HQ for two Japanese Army units and held a shitload of supplies for the Imperial military. The Japanese, much like the Germans, were putting their military assets in close to the civilian populations in order to dissuade any Allied bombings.

Secondly, my brother found out while he was in the Army in the 90's that before the decision to drop the bomb was made, the US Army, in preparation for the invasion, pre-ordered the Purple Heart medals they believed they would need. By the time my brother had left the service, around 95 or so, the US Army was still using the same supply of Purple Hearts that they had ordered fifty years before. Those damn things went through to the end of WWII, through Korea, Vietnam, and even the first Iraq War and still hadn't been used up.