Today is the 64th anniversary of the dropping of a nuclear weapon over Hiroshima by the Enola Gay.
A group of “Peace at any cost” types from the PacNW are heading to Japan to apologize for the actions ordered by then President Harry Truman. Actions that all sane individuals know ended World War II more quickly and with much less loss of human life than the land invasion proposed at the time would have.
I have heard multiple times about how the Japanese school system is one of the most excellent educational systems in the world, except for one area: Their nation’s actions during World War II.
I am beginning to think that they may have noticed the criticism.
I think those people in Tacoma are wonderful and modest because they will visit Japan to ask forgiveness although it was Japan that started the war. Japan should visit your country and apologize first. In any war, both countries have to be responsible for the results. I think this visit will be a good chance to forgive each other and make a better relationship.
That young lady is a junior high level student attending public school in the city of Hiroshima.
From the specimens I have seen wandering the commercial businesses of my little corner of America, I don’t even a bare majority of our junior high students could get the decade in which WWII occured right if given a multiple choice answer question.
And it is not getting any better. Do not click this if your day is going well.
Got to love homeschooling! Instead of heart bleeding teachers, you can inform them of reality and that there are jerks in the world that need to be introduced to peace making nucleur power, Iran is coming to mind and now it is easier, send it air mail.
Couldn’t guess the decade, indeed.
I asked a high school-er why he thought A-bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki was wrong compared to the even more destructive four day saturation firebombing of Tokyo.
He answered “When did that happen?”