DOOLEY Observed: 68th Anniversary of Hiroshima bombing

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Tuesday, August 6, 2013

68th Anniversary of Hiroshima bombing

Japan marked the 68th anniversary Tuesday of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima with a somber ceremony to honor the dead and pledges to seek to eliminate nuclear weapons.

Some 50,000 people stood for a minute of silence in Hiroshima's peace park near the epicenter of the early morning blast on Aug. 6, 1945, that killed up to 140,000 people.

The bombing of Nagasaki three days later killed tens of thousands more, prompting Japan's surrender to the World War II Allies.

I remember this day. It signified a pending end to the war and I think we all knew that. It was a Monday. I don't think anyone gave any thought to how many people died, there was just elation at the thought of an end of the war. I was 13. Roosevelt had passed and Truman was our President and it was his decision to use the bomb. The exact date of the war's end is not universally agreed upon. It has been suggested that the war ended at the armistice of 14 August 1945, V-J Day, rather than the formal surrender of Japan (2 September 1945); in some European histories, it ended on V-E Day (8 May 1945).