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Hiroshima Day Gathering: Commemorate Hiroshima Day at Peace Crossroads

Date:
Sunday, August 06, 2017
Time:
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Event Type:
Vigil/Ritual
Organizer/Author:
WILPF
Location Details:
crossroads/intersection of Stevens Creek Blvd. & Winchester Blvd., San Jose, CA

To remember Hiroshima, gather with your signs of peace at Peace Crossroads where we will remind those driving by that 72 years ago, the first nuclear weapon of war was dropped on innocent civilians in Hiroshima.

Bring your peace umbrellas.

Depending on the mood, the Raging Grannies will sing, or not.

This event is sponsored by Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)
Added to the calendar on Fri, Aug 4, 2017 4:42PM

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by Realistic
If Harry S Truman decided to go ahead with the planned invasion of the island empire of Japan, American troops would have died in the tens of thousands to take it. If it was then revealed that weapons existed and were at his disposal, weapons that he chose not to use, he would have been impeached for treason and likely executed. He ended a long war that they started and that they stubbornly pursued long after their ability to prevail had vanished. Tough choice, no doubt but the correct one at the time. All of this nonsense is simply an exercise in historical revisionism. Japan should have quit a long time before those bombs fell. In their racist arrogance, they simply failed to do so.
by facts
The other comment is all speculation.

It is, however, well documented that Japan was already willing to surrender before the A-bombs were dropped. Lines of communication were open with the US discussing terms. They just didn't want to give up their emperor.

In the end, Japan surrendered and still got to keep Hirohito.

The bombs achieved nothing other than the wanton slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Japanese, mostly civilians (many after the fact due to radiation poisoning) and perhaps compelling the USSR to speed up their own nuclear program.

No other country has used nuclear weapons. The US should be forever ashamed of this war crime.
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