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I'm 49 and work as a painter and decorator.I live in London,with my long time partner,she is a teacher.We have ...
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dissent5 months, 2 weeks ago
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"Mr Yamaguchi and his friends are freaks of history, victims of a fate so callous and improbable that it almost raises a smile. In 1945, they were working in Hiroshima where the world’s first atomic bomb exploded 60 years ago this morning, on 6 August 1945. 140,000 people died as a result of the explosion; by pure chance, Mr Yamaguchi, Mr Sato and Mr Iwanaga, were spared. Stunned and injured, reeling from the horrors around them, they left the city for the only place they could have gone – their home town, Nagasaki, 180 miles to the west. There, on 9th August, the second atomic bomb exploded over their heads."
a remarkable and unimaginable story. this is a true story movie i would like to see. we need to begin to understand so many of our actions in this world from the other point of view -
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Mikunited5 months, 2 weeks ago
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I hope there will be no more events like Hiroshima and Nagasaki.Though I fear in the fullness of time,someone,somewhere will again do the unthinkable!
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These three men witnessed scenes of devastation,that no human should go through.To go through it twice is a plain horror,beyond imagination.
What makes it so awful,was that there was no military need to drop the A and the H bombs.Japan was suing for peace,they were finished as a force.
There is a theory,a very possible likelihood,that The US military had worked do hard and spent so much time and cash on the "Manhattan Project",that the US government went ahead with it, as a kind of callous experiment.No one at this time,fully understood what would happen in the medium and longer time.So it was considered a way to find out.As much for defense reasons as offense reasons.It was realized that other nations,not all friendly ,would in time,also build "the bomb",So it was a way to try and understand the civil defense implications.Of course we now understand,that for a vast amount of humanity,there is no form of civil defense,that really helps during a nuclear attack.Sadly 200,000 Japanese people died immediately,many more were injured and/or were made homeless.The amount of deaths,deformities and heartache, it's caused in the 60 intervening years is impossible to accurately calculate.It was possibly mans darkest deed. -
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Newperson5 months, 2 weeks ago
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He said I gave up smoking and drinking when I was 50. I didn’t expect to live to 80. And now I’m well over 80.” The miracle is not that he is alive now, but that he made it past the age of 29.
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He sure has been through alot.
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berkeley5 months, 2 weeks ago
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there was a story yesterday on jon stewart's comment about harry truman being a war criminal:
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http://www.propeller.com/story/2009/05/20/jon-stew...
to anyone with a conscience, truman rates very high on the war criminal scale. to the myth-makers, truman did the right thing. the only thing that saved him was that we won and we controlled the nuremburg trials.
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Endoscopy5 months, 2 weeks ago
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The people who think that the atom bombs were criminal should have read the book "Downfall". It took the allied invasion plans of Japan along with the Japanese defense plans. They used the battle of Okinawa as an example of how the fighting would be.
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The Japanese had guessed correctly what the invasion plans were going to be. All of the air force that remained were being held in reserve as a wave of Kamikaze planes to target the troop ships. Everyone over a certain age were going to be fighting. Peasants were to wait until the hard fighting passed and attack individual soldiers with what ever they had. Mostly farm tools or knives. GI's would have to end up killing any civilian they saw if they wished to stay alive. The devastation of the two atomic bombs would be a picnic if that devastating invasion were to have happened.
The book stopped after 4 months of fighting and already the expected Japanese casualties would have been worse than both bombs not to mention the allied casualties. The devastation to the country would have been much worse if the battle of Japan had been allowed to happen. The Japanese believed that a miracle would save them as it happened in the past.
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