I'm sitting here this evening watching The Walton's with my family. The episode is centered on the dates of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Now, I'm not sure how everyone else's high school worked. But where I went to school, we didn't learn about things like that. We learned about the bombing of Pearl Harbor, but not the retaliation.
To me, that seemed as if it were being condoned. To ignore it, or to not speak of it, makes it seem like people thought it was okay. And it wasn't. Don't get me wrong, I understand that we were attacked first. I understand that 2,402 American lives were lost. I understand that another 1,282 were wounded. But does that justify bombing 2 cities occupied by innocents? Women? Children? Do the lives of 150,000 - 246,000 Japanese people mean more than the lives of those killed or wounded who were Americans?
Does this
Justify this
Does the fact that this happened first
Make this okay
Do two wrongs really make a right? I don't know. I've never really thought too much into it before tonight. What do you think?
Scooter Out.
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