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On August 6, 1945, the U.S. military plane Enola Gay circled over Hiroshima, and released a single bomb. It plunged toward the Japanese city below and detonated in an enormous fireball as hot as the sun. At Ground Zero almost everything was simply destroyed and every human being died. Even two miles from the blast, human skin was severely burned.
The wind blew at 1,000 miles per hour—shattering the bodies of thousands of people as it hurled them through the air or brought buildings crashing down upon them.
When the firestorm died down, the former city was a scorched plain. A heavy black rain brought radioactive dust back down to earth. Some of the dead had been vaporized, many others lay where they died, in their thousands and thousands.
When President Harry Truman was told of the Hiroshima bombing, he said, “This is the greatest thing in history.”
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so one should ask oneself.. would you ever forgive? and do you think the japanese will ever forgive?
Remember, Japan attacked the USA at Pearl Harbor first drawing America into the war. Remember that the decision to use the atomic bomb was based upon the number of American Service Men whose lives that would be saved by not having to endure the brutal war conditions, Remember The atomic bomb essentially stopped the war. Tragically and Sadly the bomb was used and lets hope another one is never used again. BUT remember the FACTS of the war. Germany declared war against the world with Japan and Italy as allies on thier side.
I feel bad for Japan. One cannot justify the loss of civilians and suffering caused by the bomb. However, Japan committed numerous crimes in China such as rape, torture, and killing of civilians, and no one remembers that. This fact cannot justify the atomic bomb. However, I wish people would remember that every country that fought caused destruction.
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