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on Thursday May 12 2016, @03:37AM
from the history-is-in-the-culture-of-the-teller dept.
from the history-is-in-the-culture-of-the-teller dept.
An interesting phone interview with Carol Gluck, a professor of Japanese history at Columbia University.
"The Japanese ignore everything before Hiroshima and the Americans ignore everything after Nagasaki."
On Tuesday, President Obama announced his decision to visit Hiroshima, Japan, the site where the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb in August 1945. Obama will specifically visit Memorial Park, which commemorates the event; he will be the first sitting American president to do so, although he does not plan to offer any sort of apology. The bombing of Hiroshima killed around 100,000 people; three days later, tens of thousands more were killed after the United States bombed Nagasaki.
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If your life was a horse, you'd have to shoot it.
(Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Thursday May 12 2016, @09:46PM
Or even worse. "You are committing war crimes too."
No, I am not committing any war crimes. And I have been voting against the establishment in my country that has been for the past 2 administrations.
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