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Japan remembers Hiroshima victims

Published: 06 August, 2010, 06:07
Edited: 07 August, 2010, 06:22


Japan, Hiroshima: Japanese youths hold candles to pray for victims of the 1945 atomic bombing in front of the Atomic Bomb Dome (background) at Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on August 5, 2010. The Japanese western city will mark the 65th anniversary of the world's first atomic attack on August 6. (AFP Photo / Toru Yamanaka)

Japan is remembering the 140,000 people who died after the first-ever use of an atomic bomb, dropped by the US on the city of Hiroshima in August 1945.

 
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tan boontee August 06, 2010, 12:52 quote
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65 years have gone by after the first atomic bomb exploded Hiroshima, yet we are all still trapped by the horror of the even more lethal nuclear weapon. We humans never learn. I visited the bombed city which transformed itself from ashes to a beautiful metropolis in 1983. The famous skeletal dome testifies the extent of our folly in pursuing wars uncompromisingly, killing our perceived “enemies” in the millions without conscience or remorse. Yet we continue to initiate bloody conflicts without qualm, on the pretext that we, the most intelligent animal, can never be wrong. When will we start to learn? (btt1943)

Krim August 06, 2010, 15:57 quote
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War is never good. But I have to say, about this thing. If it weren't the Japanese, If US didn't do this. We would have lived like slaves. I'm from Indonesia, and the Japanese was invading my nation. I have a grandpa and grandma who still remembers how bad the Japanese soldiers behaviors were. Tried to force their ideas and doctrines over every people back then, otherwise, they'll say "Bagero!" followed by katana slash to the neck of the natives, and unsurprisingly they were also masters in torture methods, grandpa said he remember how his colleagues were tied to bamboo shoot and then got impaled slowly as the bamboo grow. Good thing the Japanese are not like what they used to be anymore. We all hate war. Let this be a sign, that war is never a good solution for mankind.

MONDO August 07, 2010, 02:28 quote
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Before they pass from this earth, talk to a Pacific Theater Combat Veteran. Ask him about the Bomb. Revisionist historians have the benefit of 20/20 hindsight and woulda, coulda, shoulda. Morons. When my father, who was with the 11th. Airborne and stationed in Japan at the end of the War, he weighed 132 pounds, had malaria, amoebic dysentery, dengue fever and would lhave loved to discuss the issue of the dropping of the bombs on Japan with anyone. Unfortunately he died five years ago at the age of 79. War, he would say, is the loss of all reason. If an apology will undue all the wrongs of war and threat of future war, I am sure he would be all for it. On the other hand, he was not so naive as to believe this were true. When the ones who lived through the horrible events of yesteryear have passed away the college educated idiots with all the answers will doom us all to repeat the mistakes of the past. God help you.

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