For a brief moment, an individual's response to this story made me absolutely speechless.

I can not believe that anyone who carries any faith could possibly condone the killing of 140,000 civilians- even if it was a war. I know it's war. I realize this. But children died. Women who had nothing to do with it. Men that perhaps didn't agree with what was being done. There were schools. There were playgrounds. And there were atrocities.

"So my main thought on this is that I don't feel too choked up about ending the war in that fashion." Were you there? Did you watch what happened to the babies? Did you realize that this would affect dozens of future generations? It's war. It's going to be despicably ugly. But your flippant response to so many deaths is mind numbing.

I absolutely adore an older German woman- who happens to be a dear friend of mine. She lived through World War II. She hated Hitler- but she was forced to salute him each time she bought bread- or she would not be served. Her Father was forced into a concentration camp for his beliefs. So were many of her friends- her uncles... her aunts. She used to watch the bombings of Hamburg each night from her attic window... wondering if they would finally reach her.

War involves an entire country- including civilians. But the pain that a country can shoulder from this is so hurtful. There are wrong and right sides- but death is death. And to be so flippant about 140,000 people's lives being cut short in such a hellish fashion is one of the most amazingly pitiless opinions I could imagine.

I will never understand- though I would live for one thousand years- man's inhumanity to man.