A survivor at a memorial service in Nagasaki, Japan last year.
BARACK OBAMA IS MAKING THE FIRST U. S. Presidential visit to Hiroshima on May 27 and the big question is: will he apologize for dropping the first atomic bomb on that city in August 1945 that killed 140,000 people. He says he will not and majority American opinion is probably against it. It would cut into our myth of being the good guys, fighting the good war against the evil Nazis and the dirty Japs. We all know the story very well.
I'm calling what happened to the people of that city, and was repeated three days later in Nagasaki, instantly killing 73,000 more people with one radioactive bomb … a holocaust. A true holocaust worthy of the name because the people were burned, roasted, radioactivated – something that never happened in the so-called, falsely-name “Holocaust” in Europe. And that wasn't the end of it. In Hiroshima, the bomb instantly killed 80,000 to 140,000, but seriously injured 100,000 more. It caused a black rain to fall, composed of dirt, dust, soot and highly radioactive particles that contaminated even areas remote from the explosion.
