August 6; what does that remind me of?

64 years ago, the United States blew up Hiroshima, killing over 110,000 people.

Many of our favorite ‘left’ wen sites have nothing about this at all, in their effort to not piss off any potential web traffic.

But still there’s a few interesting items:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…

http://www.politics.co.uk/news…

http://www.truthdig.com/report…

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    • Inky99 on August 7, 2009 at 05:15

    We’re a threat to the world, aren’t we?

  1. …on which Hibakusha (the survivors) wrote, in English and Japanese, their wishes for a Nuclear Free Earth.

    My friend, a survivor, had friends write on it to send to me.  I had helped to organize the Hibakusha tour for the 40 year anniversary in 1985.  I wear it every year during this time.

    I was saddened that almost noone mentioned it or seemed to realize today was the anniversary of one of the worst karmic errors of the U.S.

  2. …is to an essay by Daniel Ellsberg.  It’s excellent.

  3. While standing next the the municipal building left standing as a “ground zero” monument I snapped the attached photo.  It was a random shot…I didn’t look through the viewfinder…instead just rested my hand on a remnant of the stone perimeter wall which had melted into glass…and click up through the ruins toward the nuclear explosion we call the sun.

    http://www.myxyz.org/images/Hi

    • BobbyK on August 8, 2009 at 22:16

    I think of this anniversary too.

    Presidential Daily Briefing of August 6, 2001

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