never forget

[tigre]

i am in Hiroshima, Japan. i just spent two hours walking through the A-Bomb memorial and Peace Museum. Read: I just spent two hours crying. i will never forget what i saw and learned today. i will make sure that we never commit such a crime again.

Comments

[anonymous]

Hear hear. I'll help.

-C

[called_intrepid]

Hiroshima isn't nearly as bad as Nagasaki. At least with Hiroshima we can claim that it saved lives by forestalling the invasion of the Japanese home islands and that we were partially ignorant of just what it would do (though we had a pretty good idea). Nagasaki however was dropped while the Japanese were already in the process of figuring out how to surrender. We dropped that one mostly to prove to the Russians that we could do it again. At least that's my opinion. I'm glad that you were so affected by it though. As Americans its easy to villify the German Concentration camps, and the Japanese beheading their captured enemies. It's important to remember though that just because other countries committed atrocities, it in no way excuses our own.

[anonymous]

Um, I realize this is an inappropriate comment for this entry. But come to New Yooooooork.

-RCD