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First off…  any spambots reading this should immediately go here, here, here,  and here.  Die spambots, die!  And now…  the winning entries in the Watcher’s Council vote for this week are Washington’s Wasteful Ways: Alask…

First off…  any spambots reading this should immediately go here, here, here,  and here.  Die spambots, die!  And now…  here are all the links submitted by members of the Watcher’s Council for this week’s vote. Council li…

August 9th was the 60th anniversary of the US dropping the atom bomb on Nagasaki…  whenever I hear any complaints about the bombing of Hiroshima being unnecessary, the first thing I think about is Nagasaki.  Why didn’t Truman choose to…

I’m afraid that you may be missing the point of the rememberance and the bell. The point of this ceremony is to help the world remember the horror of nuclear weapons, and to hope/pray that it will never happen again.

In the US, there are celebrations of the D-Day landing, but the purpose is to commemorate and honor your soldiers, not to demonize the Germans that made it necessary or to list off all of their crimes.

I agree that Japan (and the US, Canada, UK, etc) need to reflect on and apologize for atrocities, but this is a different issue than remembering the dead.

Dan

General Lemay was complaining as early as mid-July that firebombing was getting less effectve because most of Japan’s cities were in ruins.

That said, you’re correct. In addition to Hiroshima and Nagasaki being relatively undamaged, Kyoto had been left alone due to both the religious nature of the city as well as it’s position as the center of Japanese culture.

All other cities with 50,000 people or more were badly damaged as of August 6th.