78 Years From Hiroshima

Lest we forget, the second “war to end all wars”, the one we in the West refer to as World War II (it has a different name among the people who paid most dearly for the victory), was a war characterized by holocausts, one of which is regularly memorialized, the others, all but forgotten, especially the only other one that most equates with “the Holocaust”, one that in terms of deaths per hour makes every other slaughter in human history seem an irrelevancy, the two single greatest mass slaughter events in human history, two days that much more than December 7, 1941, deserve to live in infamy. I of course refer to the nuclear devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6the and 9th in 1945. Of course, in order to “forget”, one needs to have “known”, and the truth concerning World War II, something which it is illegal to investigate in much of the world, for some strange anti-academic reason, is something of which very few have even an inkling, especially in the United States. But perhaps at least in early August of every year some of us in diverse parts of our troubled planet can take the time to remember the victims as well as the victimizers and to perhaps give the slogan, “never again” a trace of meaning. Especially as the same country responsible for that slaughter, the same political party, is once again making a repetition of nuclear war a realistic possibility.

Thanks, Consortium News, for providing these articles on this day.