Extraordinarily good advice.
Posted on 08/06/2022 6:45:11 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Reiko Yamada was 11 years old on August 6, 1945, when the US dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Now 88, she is among the few survivors of the horrific attack, which killed around 140,000 people, and is determined to pass on the lessons of history. But Yamada and other survivors fear their voices are not being heard. On the 77th anniversary of the bombing, FRANCE 24 reports on the survivors of the attack.
Bells tolled in Hiroshima on Saturday as the city marked the 77th anniversary of the world's first atomic bombing.
Reiko Yamada was 11 years old on August 6, 1945. Her school was just 2.6 kilometres from the epicentre of the attack.
The young girl saw a plane and a flash, then nothing. A tree fell on her, but she survived and found her family. Today, she is determined to keep the painful memories of that fateful day alive.
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>>determined to pass on the lessons of history.
It’s a simple lesson, really: Don’t anger the Americans.
In late July 1945, the War Department provided an estimate that the entire Downfall operations would cause between 1.7 to 4 million U.S. casualties, including 400-800,000 U.S. dead, and 5 to 10 million Japanese dead.
https://www.history.navy.mil/about-us/leadership/director/directors-corner/h-grams/h-gram-057/h-057-1.html
Dad’s uncle was a 1st Lieutenant in the 1st Ordnance Squadron of the 509th Composite group. He participated in the assembly and loading of both weapons on Tinian.
One group of people completely forgotten in the discussion about the atomic bomb and the shorting of the war.
All the people in slave labor camps in areas controlled by the Japanese. I believe there are estimates that 10,000 people were dying each month that were in those camps.
Lesson number one - don’t start wars you can’t win.
Extraordinarily good advice.
Lesson one: don’t embark on wars of conquest.
I’ve been to ground zero there. Pelosi went to apologize. Karma is: Nagasaki is where the torpedo’s used at Pearl Harbor were made.
Had Harry not given the go-ahead, I might never have known my late friend, Bob. At that time he was a combat Marine in the Philippines.
“It’s a simple lesson, really: Don’t anger the Americans.”
The time is ripe for ANY of our enemies to attack us. Heck, our own Government is trying to take us down from within!
Brandon is weak and feckless...and the rest of the world is not blind to that FACT.
I visited the museum at Hiroshima. The display stated that the US dropped the atomic bombs because they had to justify the enormous costs of the Manhattan Project and as a warning to the Soviets. It never stated the enormous casualties invading mainland Japan would have incurred, both on the US and the Japanese.
That was true of then.....not so sure about now.
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My dad was a U.S. Marine on a Navy ship somewhere off of Japan preparing
for the ground invasion of the Japanese mainland when the bombs went off.
Without the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs I may never have existed.
I am pretty proud to say, my Father worked at Oak Ridge during the war.
In fact, I asked him one time in the late 50s or 60s, why he was not in the army. He just said, he wasn’t drafted.
If memory serves, he was a plumber.
My only regret is we didn’t give them more of a chance to surrender…first. There was a 3rd option.
1. Do nothing
2. Nuke civilian population centers
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3: Use 1 or 2 nukes on strictly military targets close to their seat of government. There was a big Japanese airbase 15 or so miles outside of Tokyo, a strike there would not have only damaged their air forces but would have had a minuscule number of civilian deaths (compared to a big city).
We could always have went back to cities later, except this time with more of a superior moral position.
“Dad’s uncle was a 1st Lieutenant in the 1st Ordnance Squadron of the 509th Composite group. He participated in the assembly and loading of both weapons on Tinian.”
My Dad and his Dad were both Machinists, working in Milwaukee, WI during the early and then late, 40’s and beyond. Grandpa worked on parts of those bombs, though of course he didn’t know it at the time.
Later, they both also worked on parts of the early space capsules for NASA.
We have his letter home after the bombs were dropped. We sent photos to a number of museums and US Military historical groups. It’s the first communication home from the 509th after the bombs were dropped that they have on record.
Sic Semper Tyrannis.
You’re leaving out revenge for Pearl Harbor, the Bataan Death March (The POW camps had been liberated and it was known by then!), defense of Manila atrocities etc.
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