LEST WE FORGET - TODAY 73 YEARS AGO

[Vincent]

1945:At 8:15 am today 73 years ago, a US B-29 dropped a single bomb over Hiroshima, and the first atomic weapon used in warfare detonated with a 13-kiloton blast, destroying nearly 5 square miles of the Japanese city.

Over 70,000 died instantly, and tens of thousands will later perish from injury and sickness.

My boarding school mathematics teacher hated the Japs. He had been taken prisoner in Burma. There were no fingernails left on the six fingers they didn’t cut off.

Read “With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa” by E.B. Sledge and you will see why it was necessary to drop the A-bombs.