65 years ago today

[lotesse]

the atomic bomb "Little Boy" fell on Hiroshima.

One of my most vivid childhood memories is of the 9th grade Language Arts class in which we read the survivor testimonials. After an hour of parsing through these intensely painful, appalling accounts, the teacher asked us how many of us thought the bombing on Hiroshima and Nagasaki had been the right thing to do. Every student but two - myself and one other girl - raised their hands. I think the poor teacher was horrified; I know I was, and still am.

Comments

[starlady]

That makes three of us. Particularly considering that those same testimonials are what schoolchildren in Japan read to teach them about the wartime suffering.

[lotesse]

God, really? I suppose it only makes sense, but - man. It's got to be hard for those children to cope with that history.

[laughingrat]

WAUGH D:

When I started reading the post, I thought, "That's right, it was really helpful to read first-person accounts of horrible injustice when I was a kid," and then the end of your post reminded me of how many people just still didn't care after reading that stuff. *sigh*