How My Grandpa Survived The HIROSHIMA ATOMIC BOMB

Today is the 70th Anniversary of the Hiroshima Atomic Bombing.

It reminded me about my boyfriend's story about his grandpa. Thought no better time to repost this than today~!

'HOW MY GRANDPA SURVIVED THE HIROSHIMA ATOMIC BOMB'

For those who commemorate only the ones suffered and died from Hiroshima bombing, there are many old ladies out there still alive having suffered being 'comfort women' for Japanese soldiers. Arguably, the number of women suffered is more than the casualty by the bombing. Japan still denies the history and does not teach their kids about this. For god's sake, Japan has a temple for worshiping their nazis. No wonder the rest of Asia feels nothing bad about Hiroshima bombing, just saying. Not that I justify killing or bombing in any way, many people especially westerners tend to focus only on the Japanese side, which by the way was not exactly the greatest victim during the WWII era.

oh please, this makes me emotional..

@ sega:
theres no point in comparing all the tragedies of wwii to people who worship war and all that comes with it.
i find your post inappropriate in this thread because its not about the women or jews or roma and sinti or all the other ethnicities that fell victim for the megalomaniacs at that time. its about a man who was lucky enough to stay alive only because his shoe lace was open. please take a moment to appreciate the story.
theres no question that all those atrocities against so many human beings were insane, inexcusable and inconceivable.
japan may not have been the greatest victim, but the first and only to experience such a horrific weapon of mass destruction. and thats what makes the difference here.

I'm just simply educating some people out there who often take only one side in this historical happening. I don't think I have said anything inappropriate in my post. I am not going against commemorating the victims of the bombing. I'm not asking you to take a side or anything, just simply be aware. You are perhaps overreacting.

Sega wrote: For those who commemorate only the ones suffered and died from Hiroshima bombing, there are many old ladies out there still alive having suffered being 'comfort women' for Japanese soldiers. Arguably, the number of women suffered is more than the casualty by the bombing. Japan still denies the history and does not teach their kids about this. For god's sake, Japan has a temple for worshiping their nazis. No wonder the rest of Asia feels nothing bad about Hiroshima bombing, just saying. Not that I justify killing or bombing in any way, many people especially westerners tend to focus only on the Japanese side, which by the way was not exactly the greatest victim during the WWII era.

So tacky.

Sega wrote: For those who commemorate only the ones suffered and died from Hiroshima bombing [...]

Sega wrote: I'm just simply educating some people out there who often take only one side in this historical happening. I don't think I have said anything inappropriate in my post. I am not going against commemorating the victims of the bombing. I'm not asking you to take a side or anything, just simply be aware. You are perhaps overreacting.

but perhaps youre right.
perhaps im overreacting.
perhaps its that time of the month for me.

but perhaps its nothing from above.
perhaps this was simply the touching story of a late man.
perhaps i am well-aware.

perhaps

Eh.. The Japanese tried to torture my grandfathers. One of my grandfathers fought them in the Pacific theater, one stayed in Manila and fought them there. I have been told atrocities of the invading Japanese over and over. Throwing babies in the air, catching them with their samurai swords, experimenting on people, dipping people in acid to observe human survival, keeping prisoners on the ground and having bamboo trees grow through prisoner bellies, rape.. endless rapes of women, men, and children.

I don't feel bad for them. I don't hate them either, I have Japanese people married into my family. My grandfather (while he was alive) was asked at the Thanksgiving dinner table if he would have still killed Japanese people, now that he has Japanese grandchildren. He said, "of course I would have killed them, I wish I could have had more bullets so that some of my friends would have lived." I loved that man, he was the only man that understood me when I had a "bar fighting" phase in my youth. He said, "that fury is normal, it is in all men in our family, he just doesn't have a hero war to fight."

my grandmother is a ww2 survivor, she ran and hid in the mountains - among countless other innocent filipinos who fled for their lives when the japs invaded. I would not exist today if it were not for her bravery, perseverance, and determination to survive.

I have no sympathy for fascists.

There were many atrocities committed during WW2 by the armies of Nazi Germany & imperial Japan, as well other armies (Stalin's invasion of Poland & Baltic countries, Japanese-American families being gathered in prisoners camps...)
Avenging an atrocity by another atrocity will only cause more atrocities & injustice.
The bomb(s) over cities killed mainly civilians not only in Hiroshima, also in many other countries. & not all Japanese civilians were approving the war & imperialism.

To make it short:
Past is past, what is done is done. We shall learn our lesson, remember it & make our best so that it doesn't happen again.
But let us all now try to build a better world altogether.

i have a question and i don't even know how to ask it without sounding rude...where did all that madness in Japan come from? (the catching babies with samurai swords and all.) do they have a culture of superiority where it is the norm to feed upon that kind of aggression? i really want to know. in the US, wolves run in packs (slave owners, the KKK). it's a terrible culture. i know of many horrible people that only like hanging around other horrible people. i just can't believe it could get so bad that Japan would do those things to China and Korea. i know it happened, i'm just shocked even though my own country is horrible.