Tomorrow is the anniversary of one of the greatest war atrocities the world has ever seen . . .
And while we often remind folks that the tragedy is connected to Kansas City in a lot of ways but mostly because the guy who gave the order was a local dude . . . Here's how the rest of the world sees the event that changed the world . . .
The Guardian: Hiroshima remembers the day the bomb dropped
BBC: The 'sanitised narrative' of Hiroshima's atomic bombing
NY Times: Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Survivors Pass Their Stories to a New Generation
Pew Research: 70 years after Hiroshima, opinions have shifted on use of atomic bomb
WaPo: After the A-bomb: What photographers encountered in Hiroshima
Focus News: Hiroshima Bombing Highlights Importance Of Iran Nuclear Deal: John Kerry
Bloomberg: In Hiroshima, Abe Calls for World Free of Nuclear Weapons
And because it's the late night, let's focus on another Kansas City connection to atomic/nuke fear and a classic movie that spoke to the Cold War concern about the bomb that is mostly a memory of the past . . . Here's our favorite preview of The Day After
There will be a few local ceremonies marking the occasion along with some media offering a view of the event that's mostly sanitized. More in a bit . . .
Harry Truman had been in the KKK at one time
ReplyDeleteNukes are bad but as I see it the Japs had one hell of a payback coming.
ReplyDeleteAmen, they started the fucking war and we ended it. Just remember, you fuck with the bull, you get the horns...
ReplyDeletePearl Harbor wasn't much different than 911
ReplyDeleteWe WON that war and WON that peace. Say what you will of FDR and HST, but they were SMART enough and TOUGH to win. Does anyone seriously think Pa Clinton, Simple George or Comrade Obama could have led The USA to victory in WWII? HST did what had to be done!
ReplyDeleteIt's a silly question but yes. The United States secured strategic resources during WWII while Russia won the ground war at the cost of 20 million Russian Soldiers. But it's certainly questionable if the Nazi's actually lost in WWII. Toni Bones has done more jail time than the average SS Soldier. The Euro is the Deutschmark. German Minister Merkel dated Nazi Skinheads in college. Italy is a fascist state and France has fascist representation in it's government. So Harry Truman dropped nukes on Japan because Russia was advancing on the Chinese Border and US Troop deployment wasn't capable to fight a ground war with Russia
ReplyDeleteTKC Breaking News: This just in from a "denizen". TKC reporting that there were 83,000 niggers killed at Hiroshima. Three will be a vigil at Nichols Fountain on the Plaza today at 4:00pm.
ReplyDeleteTKC will be there to interview a few of the female survivors and any other skank that he can corner.
Remember, if it's possible, we will find the racist angle. We are, after all, All Racist, All the Time.
Excuse me miss. Do you know who I am ?
Miss fresh from Harrisonville: No, I'm sorry I don't
I'm Tony Botello, I run a median empire. (snicker overheard in background, "you live in the basement at your mom's fat fuck)
Atrocity, really? The Japanese went through Asia like a disease killing and enslaving millions. Koreans still mourn the loss of 200,000 of their women who were put in brothels, whole villages in the Philippines were wiped out, the Chinese lost a million to them before Pearl Harbor. Let's not forget they invaded Alaska and had plans to invade the west coSt. They even printed new American currency for when they took over America. Then you have tens of thousands of us troops killied pushing them back. It was estimated that just invading mainland japan alone would cost us one million troops killed
ReplyDeleteJapan got what they deserved and frankly, they got off lightly.
The Chinese haven't forgotten what they did to them, so the Japanese better start worrying about that
Maybe that's why they let Fukashima contaminate the ocean with radiation
ReplyDeleteYES THEY DESERVE TO DIE AND I HOPE THEY BURN IN HELL... along with La Cuca Raza and the KC Scholars
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