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Hi Jan,

Thinking of everyone in Hiroshima, not just tomorrow, but always.

Chris

I understand your thought.

Rob

Some might be a bit young to know or simply just dont know...

whats the sad annerversery.??

The dropping of the nuclear warhead on Hiroshima Paul.

Link.

Also don't forget Nagasaki.

Indeed. Nagasaki is also mentioned in that article.

Still hard to comprehend that these things actually happened.

It's easy to have a moral view now, but then, the World had been at war for six years and the Japanese weren't willing to stop.

Yeah, I can see both points of view, definitely, and wouldn't cast any aspersion either way because I simply wasn't there (thankfully).

I'm still just awestruck (in a bad way), that it actually happened, a bit like 9/11 in that regard, it's so incomprehensible that it doesn't seem quite real.

Awefull thing, i dont want to rub anyone up the wrong way either but it probably saved lives, certainly in the short term when looking at a full scale ground invasion of Japan.

I hope we never see a war on that scale again, unfortunatly we probably will, if not in our life time....

D

Indeed. Not a nice call to have to make. It certainly saved a lot of Western lives, but the killing of civilians throughout that conflict (by almost every country involved) is frankly just terrifying. This really was not very long ago.