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07-02-2011, 08:48 PM
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Re: May We Never Forget Hiroshima (B&W)
The worst thing about Hiroshima is that most young people alive today don't know the first thing about it. Never forget? They never knew in the first place.
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07-05-2011, 02:44 PM
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Re: May We Never Forget Hiroshima (B&W)
I agree. According to a friend of mine who is currently teaching English in Japan, her public school's history curriculum is completely devoid of any World War II material. Not that I blame them. I'm sure it's not something they'd wanna teach their kids. And I'm going off topic here, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's a similar situation in Germany. As far as the decision to nuke Hiroshima and Nagasaki goes, I think Truman was pretty obvious in that he wasn't proud of what the U.S. had to resort to when he stated: "I realize the tragic significance of the atomic bomb... It is an awful responsibility which has come to us... We thank God that it has come to us, instead of to our enemies; and we pray that He may guide us to use it in His ways and for His purposes." Don't forget that the U.S. was now fighting a war on two continents and at this point they had suffered very heavy losses as a result. For months, they were bombing military targets in and around Japan and demanding their surrender only to be repeatedly ignored. Considering all their casualties of war, and then presented with this mother of all bombs that could end the war - what would you have done? Send more troops in or save their lives? Also, I sure as hell don't agree with every wartime decision the U.S. has made, but I firmly believe that had they not intervened in Europe, the majority of the continent would of soon been speaking German. |
