H U M A N I T Y 'S
I N H U M A N I TY.
A G A I N S T
H U M A N I T Y .
They have tried to send it down the memory hole, but they can't.
68 years ago today on 6th August 1945 a crime of such magnitude was committed that it staggers the human spirit and fills it with a horror beyond horrors. It was beyond anyone's imagination that such a dreadful, evil act could be done in the name of man Yet it was.
It will leave forever a blood-soaked, screaming stain on our collective history.
It has disgraced us all.
It has mocked our aspirations for a civilized society.
The fact that the very country that committed this heinous monstrosity is now engaged in war still ( as always ) and seems keen to invade Iran and North Korea, or any other country that stands in its way of being the biggest bully in the world, should send shivers down all our spines.
Here are some quotes about that insanity- war- said by people who are not from the same dimension as the murderers who rule us all.
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1." War is organized murder and nothing else
Harry Patch- last surviving soldier of World War One.
2."It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished, unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets"
Voltaire.
3."There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people".
Howard Zimm.
4."Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a War Crime".
George Wald.
5.."It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender because of the effective sea blockade and the successful bombing with conventional weapons.
The lethal possibilities of atomic warfare in the future are frightening. My own feeling was that in being the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the Barbarians of the Dark Ages. I was not taught to make war in that fashion and wars cannot be won by destroying women and children".
Admiral William D. Leahy, Chief of Staff to Presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman, from' I Was There'. page 441.
6.."The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children revolts my soul"
Herbert Hoover.
7. " Of thousands of others ,nearer the centre of the explosion there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes-except that there were no ashes"
William Burchett.
8." In some way more painful is the fact that their experience appears to be fading from collective memory of humankind. Having never experienced an atomic bombing, the vast majority round the World can only vaguely imagine such horror....those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. The probability that nuclear weapons will be used and the danger that nuclear war are increasing."
Mayor of Hiroshima, Tadatoshi Akiba.
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