Hiroshima Day

[jaqeboy]

Here's Daniel Ellsburg's thoughts on Hiroshima Day an the A-bomb, H-bomb and N-bomb:

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23206.htm

[jaqeboy]

also, this article:

For 64th Anniversary: The Great Hiroshima Cover-Up -- And the Nuclear Fallout for All of Us Today
Greg Mitchell for HuffPost

[jaqeboy]

and this YouTube:

A Date Which Will Live in Infamy

[MTPorcupine3]

When I lived in California, as an English tutor I had a student who was about 1 km from the epicentre of that bomb. She miraculously survived intact. It was fifty years since it happened, and I helped her translate into English the details of that event, which she remembered like yesterday. Unlike what a certain other forum writer might say to the contrary, she didn't start WWII and didn't deserve to go through this.

[violence]

When I lived in California, as an English tutor I had a student who was about 1 km from the epicentre of that bomb. She miraculously survived intact. It was fifty years since it happened, and I helped her translate into English the details of that event, which she remembered like yesterday. Unlike what a certain other forum writer might say to the contrary, she didn't start WWII and didn't deserve to go through this.

What did she deserve?

[jaqeboy]

When I lived in California, as an English tutor I had a student who was about 1 km from the epicentre of that bomb. She miraculously survived intact. It was fifty years since it happened, and I helped her translate into English the details of that event, which she remembered like yesterday. Unlike what a certain other forum writer might say to the contrary, she didn't start WWII and didn't deserve to go through this.

Wow! Do you have a transcript of her description? That must have been amazing and horrifying.

[Friday]

When I was an undergrad at Berzerkley, I once saw a Japanese physician speak. He had been a very young doctor in Japan post A-bomb.  His stories were horrifying. 

[leetninja]

The sad truth is that if the Japanese had the technology they would have used it on America.  So, would this movie then be anti Japanese Govt?  It had nothing to do with the "vicious government" it was kill or be killed.

As far as not being repeated ... it is only a matter of time.  Humans have still not learned that war is pointless no matter what the cause, and they have been and will continue to kill until we finally wipe each other off the face of the planet.

Man's inhumanity to man has been going on since the beginning of time ... when will we ever learn ...

[Tom Sawyer]

I was statiioned near Hiroshima.

We had a little old man that was our room papa-san... we paid him to clean our room, shine our shoes etc. One day he just started talking about the bombing, he was on his way to work and was knocked down by the blast and suffered burns on the side toward the blast.

We were stunned by his story, which he told in a light-hearted way. Felt like saying "We're sorry..." even if we hadn't been born yet.

[dalebert]

Felt like saying "We're sorry..." even if we hadn't been born yet.

I think that's called empathy. Most people feel it naturally until it gets conditioned and programmed out of them.