1945 : 'It Was Just Against Humanity'
August 6th 1945 - US drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima
August 9th 1945 - Atomic Bomb hits Nagasaki
those dates meant little significance to me but after watching a 2-part Documentary on the Discovery Channel called 'Hiroshima' i wanted to voice out what i thought about the attack.
i always knew that how was World War 2 ended. i heard it from my grandparents, i read it in school history books. i always thought the attack made by the Americans was a necessity and thus justified. Japan was the 'evil' one, conquering nations, killing thousands, there can be no doubt about that. yet after watching the documentary, the re-telling of what happened and the re-enactment i had another view - It Was Just Against Humanity.
August 9th 1945 - Atomic Bomb hits Nagasaki
those dates meant little significance to me but after watching a 2-part Documentary on the Discovery Channel called 'Hiroshima' i wanted to voice out what i thought about the attack.
i always knew that how was World War 2 ended. i heard it from my grandparents, i read it in school history books. i always thought the attack made by the Americans was a necessity and thus justified. Japan was the 'evil' one, conquering nations, killing thousands, there can be no doubt about that. yet after watching the documentary, the re-telling of what happened and the re-enactment i had another view - It Was Just Against Humanity.
throughtout the documentary, there were interviews among first-hand witnesses of that day, both the American side and the Japanese side. as you would have guessed, the Americans thought it was necessary and i quote one of the member among the bombing crew ' i wasn't thinking of those who died, i was thinking of those who didn't have to' as valiant as that sounds i bet the innocent Japanese civillians didn't think so.
the documentary showed a few re-enactments as they were being re-told by the victims themselves. and there was this particular one where a mother retold how she had to leave her daughter to burn alive under rubble. in the re-enactment, you could hear the sound of a little girl crying out for her mother, screaming 'Mommy where are you' 'Don't Leave Me' 'It Hurts' over and over again while the helpless mother could only reply in tears 'Please forgive me, i am a bad mother to you'
just watching the re-enactment made my heart 'sink'. just imagine what it would be like actually living through those moments. those victims did not deserve any second of it. it would be futile to debate whether was that an act of necessity or a crime against humanity. i know many more have suffered such a fate and therefore don't you think it's a time we started to 'THINK with our HEARTS? the phrase 'without suffering there would be no compassion' sounded like bull shit to me. yet after watching the documentary i definitely felt this overwhelming sense of compassion.
BUT haven't we all had more than enough SUFFERING to start having a sense of compassion? after thousands of years of conflict and suffering haven't we learnt the value of life? i know TALK IS CHEAP. the world leaders today have done well to prove that.
before i get too political pls check out this link http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/witness/august/9/newsid_4720000/4720807.stm
its a witness story about the attack on Nagasaki.
life is a precious gift given to each of us, you have your share please don't take other's.
the documentary showed a few re-enactments as they were being re-told by the victims themselves. and there was this particular one where a mother retold how she had to leave her daughter to burn alive under rubble. in the re-enactment, you could hear the sound of a little girl crying out for her mother, screaming 'Mommy where are you' 'Don't Leave Me' 'It Hurts' over and over again while the helpless mother could only reply in tears 'Please forgive me, i am a bad mother to you'
just watching the re-enactment made my heart 'sink'. just imagine what it would be like actually living through those moments. those victims did not deserve any second of it. it would be futile to debate whether was that an act of necessity or a crime against humanity. i know many more have suffered such a fate and therefore don't you think it's a time we started to 'THINK with our HEARTS? the phrase 'without suffering there would be no compassion' sounded like bull shit to me. yet after watching the documentary i definitely felt this overwhelming sense of compassion.
BUT haven't we all had more than enough SUFFERING to start having a sense of compassion? after thousands of years of conflict and suffering haven't we learnt the value of life? i know TALK IS CHEAP. the world leaders today have done well to prove that.
before i get too political pls check out this link http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/witness/august/9/newsid_4720000/4720807.stm
its a witness story about the attack on Nagasaki.
life is a precious gift given to each of us, you have your share please don't take other's.
posted by Jonathan Wan at
10:24 PM
1 Comments:
It very unfortunate that so many ppl in Hiromshima and Nagasyaki died in 1945... let's hope that there won't be another world war... everyone becomes the villain in a war.... and you're right... the americans shouldn't be proud of themselves for what they did even though they had ended World War II... anyway, the Japanese had no one else to blame but themselves after killing so many ppl in different parts of the world...
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