As I think of the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki 68 years ago and pray for peace, I still can hardly imagine what and how it really happened. So many lives were lost instantly and in excruciating ways.
I browsed through articles and comments over the anniversaries of the attacks, and just like every year, I came through comments that justified the attack. Many said there would have been more casualties if the bombs had not been used. Others said Japan deserved it for whatever it did in the course of the war. A few are sympathetic.
I'm not writing this post to agree or oppose to the argument. If you are looking for that kind of posts, you can just google it and easily find.
What I want to say is... Can we just acknowledge that so many lives were lost by the attacks on the two cities? Instead of arguing right or wrong, or that many lives were saved because of the attacks, why don't we just think about lost lives each of which was unique and only one. It's so easy to count lives as number, but there are no two lives that are same. Each life is so precious and valuable, and has not existed and will not exist.
During Christmas break last year, I visited Nagasaki Peace Memorial Museum. It was very eye-opening experience, and I suggest everybody to go. You will have glimpse of what really happened in the city under the terrible explosion and what victims faced.
It's easy to make the argument simply right or wrong, or quantify lives. That way, you "feel" like you have legitimate interpretation. But, it only makes up one side of story. I don't think that is enough for humanity to grow in the future.
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