Time to Remember

Its that time of the year again. Or maybe we should say it is that time of the decade! Life magazine has published never-released pictures of the atomic bomb that the United States dropped back in 1945 in Japan.

Watch these heart-breaking pictures at the Life magazine.

The nation magazine blogger Greg Mitchell writes,

Already some on the right are charging that this amounts to an “apology” for using the bomb against Japan. Warren Kozak, in an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, has attacked the Obama move, equating it with President Reagan going to Bitburg and laying a wreath at graves belonging to SS members. In contrast, the overwhelming majority of the 130,000 killed in Hiroshima were civilians, mainly women and children.

What is perplexing is, How can the people on the right bitch about this? They (relatives of victims and people of Japan as a whole) deserve an apology from us. Even if we do, our apologies won’t bring back the dead. Reflecting back with regret is what we can do after killing 200,000 civilians and causing irreversible damage to those cities and life. Did anyone think about ALL the Life that was lost in and around those cities? How about innocent animals? How about pets - cats, dogs? How about birds, butterflies and the countless life that existed around? The argument that this is retaliation won’t fly here. No one dropped an atomic bomb on us. The countries were at war. Yes there were atrocities by the Japanese military. Yes they did torture captured political prisoners. Yes there were suicide Japanese bombers and fighter pilots. We are not discussing those. Because they were mostly against military targets.

Pearl Harbor was not Times Square.

There is no excuse on our part to drop a bomb and wipe out LIFE. Period. This is not some kind of vegetation killer spray you bought at Home Depot and wanted to try it behind your curb to eliminate weeds. All of the American people been lulled into the belief that it ended the war and “saved lives.”

BS. This is our own hypocritical excuse. There is evidence in history, (if you study it properly) that the war would’ve ended even without it and the Soviets planning an all out war against the Japanese and Hitler already on the verge of losing. So if we are going down the path of hypocritical excuse, we might as well argue it would’ve been better to have dropped the bomb on top of Berlin. Of the 200,000 we would’ve killed at least 80% of them could have been Nazis or Nazi sympathizers.

Oh, maybe they are of the same race. The Japanese look different. Deep in our thoughts maybe racism and prejudice did play its part.