Mr. Truman's Crime Against God*
[image and text from Japan Paper Runs Censored A-Bomb Stories]
Here's the original report, filed September 8, 1945: A Nagasaki Report.
About five years ago, I visited charming Nagasaki, still a center of Catholicism. Here is my post from last August 9: 59 Years Ago Today. The pictures seem to have vanished. I will find new ones for the sixtieth anniversary of this atrocity this year.
*See Catechism of the Catholic Church - Paragraph # 2314.
The Roman Catholic Church of Urakami stands out over the
burn-razed cityscape of Nagasaki, in 1945, after the second
atomic bomb ever used in warfare was dropped by the U.S.
over the Japanese industrial center. The bombing killed more
than 70,000 people instantly, with ten thousands dying later
from effects of the radioactive fallout. An American journalist
who sneaked into Nagasaki soon after the Japanese city was
leveled by a U.S. atomic bomb found a 'wasteland of war' and
victims moaning from the pain of radiation burns in downtown
hospitals. Censored 60 years ago by the U.S. military, George
Weller's stories from the atom bombed-city surfaced in June
2005 in a series of reports in the national Mainichi newspaper.
(AP Photo)
[image and text from Japan Paper Runs Censored A-Bomb Stories]
Here's the original report, filed September 8, 1945: A Nagasaki Report.
About five years ago, I visited charming Nagasaki, still a center of Catholicism. Here is my post from last August 9: 59 Years Ago Today. The pictures seem to have vanished. I will find new ones for the sixtieth anniversary of this atrocity this year.
*See Catechism of the Catholic Church - Paragraph # 2314.
Redeemed by Our Savior, I work out my salvation with fear and trembling in Pohang, South Korea, where I live with my wife, daughter, and son and teach English at a science and technology university. Baptized a Methodist and raised a Missouri Synod Lutheran in Buffalo, NY, I spent six years as a guest of the Anglican Communion before being received by the Grace of God into the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church on the Feast of Saint Andrew, my patron, anno domini 2002.
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