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Faygo Kid

(21,477 posts)
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 03:24 PM Aug 2020

August 6, 1945. Hiroshima. Here's my memory.

50 years ago today, I was a counselor at a summer camp for kids in northwest lower Michigan. I hitchhiked into beautiful Traverse City with Gary Margosian to attend a remembrance of what had happened 25 years before to the day - the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. It was quite an adventure, as we were maybe 20. I recall the good ol' boys pulling up in the red pickup to threaten us, but we held our candles and our values.

Now it's 75 years(!), and I thought it was time to recall a moment in history, and a personal remembrance. What's yours?

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August 6, 1945. Hiroshima. Here's my memory. (Original Post) Faygo Kid Aug 2020 OP
Reading the book "Hell to Pay" Operation Downfall and The Invasion of Japan Sherman A1 Aug 2020 #1
The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was one of the major war crimes of WWII jimlup Aug 2020 #2
A dear close friend was a child in Japan lostnfound Aug 2020 #3

jimlup

(7,968 posts)
2. The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was one of the major war crimes of WWII
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 07:19 PM
Aug 2020

Think about it objectively for just a moment and you realize how absurd it is. People had really lost their heads during WWII. War does terrible things to people who should normally be able to recognize right from wrong.

Now the propaganda is so thick that you are immediately condemned if you dare to mention the immorality of these atomic attacks. A careful study of the history shows otherwise but even if the propaganda truths were actually true (they aren't), the bombing would have been major crimes.

lostnfound

(16,161 posts)
3. A dear close friend was a child in Japan
Fri Aug 7, 2020, 06:41 AM
Aug 2020

He remembers taking the train with his dad within a week after the bomb, and seeing houses tilted from the blast.

He remembers seeing Tokyo lit up as a huge fire engulfed it, earlier that year.

He is a good man. He tried to join the DU community once at my suggestion, wrote a post that had mild sexual innuendo in an early post, and was banned.

He would have added something special here, he is smart and so unique, and he would have enjoyed it. It was a shame.

Akichan dake. Ai shimasu.

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