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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MarineBob · 61-69, M

Maybe Japan should have thought twice about attacking the USA

lou502008 · 61-69, M

@MarineBob they started it, we ended it!

MartinTheFirst · 26-30, M

@lou502008 The way you ended it was the equivalent of ending a party with a belly flop onto a table.

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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