a mother's account from hiroshima bombing

it has stayed with me for years. i heard it in a documentary. the mother lived with her husband and daughter close to hiroshima. when the bomb dropped the blast destroyed their house. husband died, daughter got stuck under wood. there was fire. the mother tried to pry her daughter out but it was no use. she was there while her daughter burned alive. i keep imagining her listening to her daughter scream in agony. i imagine her sit there, eyes glazed and dead, face white as a sheet, hues of red and orange glowing against her skin and the daughter's cries muffled in the background.

edit: this has nothing to do with politics or who's got it the worst etc. just my first experience with this type of pain, e.g. mother losing child in a gruesome way irl. it was different from other pains i had come to learn during my life, so it stuck with me.

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greenmountaingal · 80-89, F

Whatever one's political views, such things are beyond terrible. There were many tragedies that awful day. The bomb was dropped because those who had to make that decision believed it would end the war much sooner and thus forestall many more tragic circumstances from unfolding all over the world.

MarineBob · 61-69, M

Maybe Japan should have thought twice about attacking the USA

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lou502008 · 61-69, M

@MartinTheFirst ...and what a "Flop" it was!!!

homegirl · F

@MarineBob
I hope you get some facts straight. US didn't bomb Japan because they attack Pearl Harbour. The decision to drop the atomic bombs in Nagasaki and Hiroshima was because the Japanese armed forces refused to surrender even after warnings were issued.
Do note that most of the people killed in the two bombings were mostly civilians aka women, children and the elderly. These are ppl that didn't participate nor have anything to do with the wars in WWII, they probably also did not support the war. So why is it fair that they suffered the brunt of the punishment for their leader's follies?
To be clear, I am not supporting Japan for its aggressive actions in the war. My own country suffered extensively during the Japanese Occupation. It was always horrifying to hear accounts or re-enactments of my people being tortured by the Japanese armed forces during that time.

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lou502008 · 61-69, M

...imagine those young men, waking up to explosions, fire...trapped inside the Arizona...screaming...their last moments of life!!!

SW-User

Imagine those people in 9/11

borntoruleyou · 31-35, M

@SW-User yeah..i feel the pain..just like i feel the pain of innocents lost their life from american bombing.

ThePerfectUsername · 70-79, M

Hiroshima was the crime of the century. And today the US has the audacity to think they and they alone can judge who's fit to have nuclear weapons. It is any wonder they're so disrespected the whole world over.

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greenmountaingal · 80-89, F

@ThePerfectUsername Finished, yes. Surrending, no.

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@walabby And Japan had already been at war on its own account for 2 years, by invading China in 1937.

walabby · M

@ThePerfectUsername They were certainly on the back foot, but far from finished.
Personnel at the US Navy Department estimated that the total losses to America would be between 1.7 and 4 million with 400,000 to 800,000 deaths. The same department estimated that there would be up to 10 million Japanese casualties.

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