>>In my country, it has a music that it says: "an error does not fix the other."
>>The atomic slaughter, does not have justifications. In Hiroshima and Nakasaki, the majority of vitimas had been women and children. They had not committed no crime. They had been punished only by living in Japan.
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>I agree that the use of the atomic bomb against humanity ushers in a new era of hell. Humanity is always searching for better and more destructive weapons.
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>A few atomic weapons could destroy the world, as we know it. I will not go into why the bomb was used, as it is argumentative. Experts conclude that millions of lives were saved.
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>Why was Hiroshima chosen as the first place to drop an atomic bomb? The committee whose responsibility it was to make such a decision had first decided upon Kyoto, Japan as the first target. However, Secretary of War Henry Stimson, intervened and suggested that another location be chosen. Stimson had visited Kyoto on two occasions and loved the city.
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>Hiroshima was chosen as the location of the dropping of the first atomic bomb on Japan because of the fact it was a military target. Hiroshima was an important manufacturing center for military weapons and had 43,000 Japanese troops stationed there. Three mountains surround the area. This would intensify the effect of the atomic bomb.
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>Why was the atomic bomb not ropped on Germany? Simply stated the war with Germany had concluded before the bomb was ready. Speaking of Germany, over 70,000 civilians died in Hamburg, Germany, during a few days and nights during August of 1943. The RAF and US Air Corp bombed the city day and night and caused a huge fire. We do not speak of that event even though many civilian lives were lost. I leave it to the reader to conclude why.
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>I feel sorry for the 57 million people that died in World War Two and in addition for those whose lives were touched.
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>The famous raid led by Jimmy Doolitle on Japan is an interesting event. Many of the Americans bailed out over Chu Chow, China. The Chinese civilians quickly helped the Americans and saved their lives. In return for their effort 580,000 Chinese civilians were killed by the Japanese Army.
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>Another event was the Battle of Manila in 1945. The Japanese Navy killed 200,000 civilians. Many civilians were brought to the soccer stadium and machine gunned. The Japanese Navy was considered to be the most humane of the Japanese military branches. Many Russians died during the war in so many battles. We do not commemorate such events. Nor do we commemorate the lives of the millions lost from other nations.
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>I could describe many things that happened during World War Two that are unimaginable. How could human beings treat each other in such a horrible manner, as was all too often the case?
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>By the way my father was a U.S. Marine and stationed in China until 1940, and “enjoyed many of the Islands of the South Pacific”. The last Island he visited from April 1, until June 30, 1945 was Okinawa. Out of the 120 men in my dads company three survived.
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>I have pictures of inhuman treatment of civilians conducted by Japanese and Chinese military personal, taken by my father in China. I can assure you that the sight of an infant on the end of a bayonet high in the air be it by a Japanese or Chinese soldier is not something I enjoy seeing.
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>Man’s inhumanity to man. How can we stop it?

Hi Thomas.
I rarely chime in anymore because I've moved on to "better things". But I read this post and had to give my 2 cents were. As an Asian American (I was adopted my Korean name is Tae Ym Chu), I've seen photos of what the Japaness at the time were doing to the people they conquered, from my grandfather and other people in my family who lived through the Japaness maddness. It did matter to them who they were or that their victims have sons and daughter and father or mothers, many of them who were force to watch their own loved one being tortured and put to death in the worst way. My biological grandfather lost his arm and one of his eyes because of the Japaness, and he was one of the lucky ones to have survied.

Ever check a Japaness history book? Not a word about their role in WWII anywhere.

And yes, I realize that the Japaness weren't the only's commiting atrosities, but they and the NAZIs turned it into an art.

Yeah, war is hell but I'm glad the good guys won.