After watching the amazing and spectacular Olympic Opening Ceremony in Beijing last night, I just wished that wars would not happen anymore and that warring nations would all just convert their destructive and truly barbaric energies to celebrate the spirit of sports. This would not happen in my lifetime for sure, as Georgia and Russia are at war right now as I blog; but I hope it would happen in the future.
August 9, 1945 - Nagasaki became the second city to be atom-bombed by the US; as if the death and destruction from the bombing in Hiroshima was not enough. Here is a gallery put up by Tyge O’Donnell, the son of the late Joe O’Donnell, a US Marine Corps photographer in WWII who took photographs of the aftermath of the bombing and eventually became an outspoken critic of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The images in the gallery reminded me of scenes from the anime "Grave of the Fireflies", which was about the firebombing of Kobe in WWII.
If we do not learn from out past mistakes, we are bound to repeat them as our history shows.
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