I have been watching some of the documentaries on the bombing of Hiroshima 60 years ago.....heart wrenching to say the least! Though it saved untold numbers of both American and Japanese lives, and ultimately brought Japan to its knees ending World War II.....the devastation and the numbers of dead was very tragic. It is things like this humanity must never forget and hope it never has to happen again. On Sunday morning, though the anniversary was yesterday morning,.....have a thought for those who perished all those years ago.....100,000 it is estimated in Hiroshima and another 80,000 in Nagasaki......those were the immediate dead. Necessary??? Perhaps.....but tragic also. They report that the Hiroshima explosion was that of 67 million sticks of dynamite......temperatures at ground zero were estimated to be in excess of 7000 degrees. I find it difficult to wrap my mind around numbers like those......I hope that I never have to witness such a thing or my children either.
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