Hiroshima

[Damnam1]

sixtythree years ago:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ggicszzi0Ec

[AAAum]

cant see youtube...but i wanna share my pix

[beej]

A disgusting act.

[PJack]

I am glad people post stuff like this and that the global community is made aware of it. It is particularly poignant now that we are 60 years after it and getting further away all the time. The only hope is that world leaders can learn from it and never choose it again. it was a hideous thing to do, and yet in US schools we are taught that it was "the right choice" because if they had to invade Tokyo it would have cost more than an acceptable number of American soldiers.

[Stramash]

Think we should always make sure that events like Hiroshima and The Holocaust are never forgotten.

We are meant to learn lessons from history to amek the future better but you tun on your TV and see stories from Darfur, Iraq, Rwanda etc etc, and you have to ask; 'Have we learned anything?'

[Stramash]

where do you classify as 'moderate climate' Jeff? After all, 3 people were kiled by tornadoes in France last week!!

:twisted:

[Loburt]

Think we should always make sure that events like Hiroshima and The Holocaust are never forgotten.

We are meant to learn lessons from history to amek the future better but you tun on your TV and see stories from Darfur, Iraq, Rwanda etc etc, and you have to ask; 'Have we learned anything?'

Please add to that list The Rape of Nanjing, the Death Railway and assortment of other atrocities committed by the Japanese.

[Stramash]

Definitely Lo; could have made a very long list of atrocities that man has perpetrated on man over the centuries, but those were extremely valid along with others such as the bombing of Dresden etc etc!!!

[Sakaki]

I'm Japanese and living in Japan. Of couse, I've been to the museum.

even in Japan, the memory is beginning to fade because the victims of Hiroshima are getting so old.

But as a one of Japanese, I realy glad to know that many people in the world consider the Hisoshima's holocaust and never forgotten.

[Loburt]

it was a hideous thing to do, and yet in US schools we are taught that it was "the right choice" because if they had to invade Tokyo it would have cost more than an acceptable number of American soldiers.

It was a hideous thing to do. But at the same time, it's also probably true that an invasion would have not only cost the lives of a terrible number of American soldiers, but also Japanese soldiers and civilians too.

[Damnam1]

it aint my intention to argue about whether it has been right or wrong to destroy Hiroshima. Ever since I liked the the song because it inherites all the sadness and the mourning in a simple song.

Yesterday I have been talking to mum and dad. They still have very vivid memories of the war.

1944 dad had been soldier in Russia near Stalingrad and was severly wounded, my mum was at home when a bomb fell on our 3 storie house, went through the roof and ceilings, exploded at ground floor ant killed half of my family who was seeking shelter in the cellar.

Days like these need to keep memories alive. We all cannot imagine how much people, no matter which nationality had suffered and still do from the aftermath. Comments are welcome, but no arguments, please.

[grezzzy_greer]

I have never been to Hirsohima but I have been to Nagasaki; I visited Peace Park, and also saw the statue pointing straight up from ground zero to the place in the sky whence all the destruction came.

I was ashamed at the time, of what had been done to Japan, and I was so sad, tears welled up in my eyes thinking of all those people, their hopes and dreams, and their potential gone in an instant - it is even affecting me now as I type - but even though these bombs were an awful end to the war - and the cost was terrible indeed in terms of innocent life - I am just as sure that if it had all gone on longer possibly continuing fighting for years more - it is possible, in fact probable, that many individuals from all the nationalities involved in the war could have died.

It is not an argument for nuclear weapons, or weapons of any sort, but simply a statement based on the beliefs of those in charge at the time and with the benefit of hindsight, although clouded by the terrible death toll : things could have been even worse...

Let us be thankful that it did finish when it did, and try to keep in our hearts the aim to prevent wars altogether...our race must grow up...but will we?

The lesson is simple, and maybe thats why humaniity seems unable to grasp it; dont go to war.

[zeusbheld]

i think the more interesting moral question raised by the atom bomb isn't whether Truman et al made the correct moral decision in the context of the second world war, but whether we as a species can learn anything about Hiroshima and Nagasaki as to what war really is.

in other words, can we as a species use Hiroshima and Nagasaki to learn how profoundly tragic war is for THE WINNERS as well as the losers? hopefully some day our species can learn that a successful war quite often isn't worth the cost. i'm not optimistic. i think there's a good chance we'll be extinct before the 23rd century.