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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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.

lou502008 · 61-69, M

@ThePerfectUsername Walk Tall, and carry a Big Stick!!!

lou502008 · 61-69, M

And another thing...if we're so disrespected, why the fuck are illegal aliens trying to get in??? Why when Countries need help, they call on the US???????

walabby · M

@ThePerfectUsername WW2 was NOT started by the USA, or England.

ThePerfectUsername · 70-79, M

I don't recall ever having said it was. But if you read any non-american history book you'll find it's widely acknowledge by the rest of the world that the Japanese were finished anyway by the time the bomb was ready. @walabby

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.