Re: [tlug] A-bomb service

[Lewske Wada <ryu@example.com>]

Fredric Fredricson wrote :
> On 07/27/2010 04:40 AM, Lewske Wada wrote:
>   
>> A lot of countries are going to send their representatives to the
>> A-bomb memorial service on Aug. 6 this year. I hope this will cause
>> progress in decreasing nuclear weapons in the world.
>>     
> I never understood why 100,000+ deaths by two A-bombs are so important to
> remember compared to the ~2,600,000 other Japanese killed in WWII. Or the
> 10,000,000 to 20,000,000 Chinese killed etc.
>
> I think that these particular A-bombs probably saved lives, considering
> that the (failed) defense of Okinawa claimed 100,000 Japanese lives and
> about as many Okinawan lives, how many Japanese and American lives would
> it have taken if the US had tried to invade Japans mainland?
>   

The bomb simply destroyed the city that's now where 1 million
people live.

The battle in Okinawa is as important, as a quarter of the population
was slaughtered there.

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Lewske "Ryu" Wada
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