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Reading this makes me so sad and reminded me of a book I read years ago: Hiroshima by John Hersey - about the first-person narrative account of survivors who wi
by gordon_freeman 1y ago
Reading this makes me so sad and reminded me of a book I read years ago: Hiroshima by John Hersey - about the first-person narrative account of survivors who witnessed the impact of atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima that morning.
- madaxe_again 1y agoLike the little boy with his skin melted off walking down the road crying for his mother… horrendous stuff.
- Foreignborn 1y agoThese stories always have me instantly sobbing, life can be tragically unfair.
- whoisyc 1y ago[flagged]
- theoreticalmal 1y agoHey, this is kind of a rude response in an otherwise thoughtful and empathetic thread
- christianqchung 1y agoWhat an insensitive, assumptive, stupid remark. You can't possibly know that the person you replied to behaves as you claim. It's 2025, the firebombing of Tokyo is widely recognized now, maybe not by most normies but certainly by any historical adjacent nerd.
- madaxe_again 1y agoOh, I see you don’t give a shit about Dresden?
- qingcharles 1y agoThat book lives rent-free in my head since I read it about 10 years ago. There's no way to forget some of the scenes in that.
- lokl 1y agoIf you have the opportunity to visit, I recommend Nagasaki over Hiroshima and especially these two places in Nagasaki: Shiroyama Elementary School Nagai Takashi Memorial Museum Nagasaki These felt much more personal than anything I saw in Hiroshima and there were zero (other) tourists to interrupt the experience (very much unlike the museum in Hiroshima).