Hiroshima's 70th

[White Exec]

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Hi Jan,

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

Chris

[cxprestigeauto]

I understand your thought.

Rob

[citroenxm]

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

whats the sad annerversery.??

[Ciaran]

The dropping of the nuclear warhead on Hiroshima Paul.

Link.

[Dieselman]

Also don't forget Nagasaki.

[Ciaran]

Indeed. Nagasaki is also mentioned in that article.

Still hard to comprehend that these things actually happened.

[Dieselman]

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.

[Ciaran]

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.

[Dean]

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

[dollywobbler]

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.