Lantern ceremony tonight marks A-bomb tragedies

Lantern ceremony tonight marks A-bomb tragedies




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6/08/2009 8:50 AM
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WINNIPEG
— The 64th anniversary of the bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki will
be marked with Lanterns for Peace 2009 tonight at Memorial Park.
Peace Alliance Winnipeg, the Manitoba Japanese Canadian Citizens
Association and Project Peacemakers will conduct the event, scheduled
to start at 7:30 p.m. with lantern making.
The program of speakers, which will include a reading of the speech
given by the mayor of Hiroshima, will begin at 8:30 p.m. and will be
followed by the lighting of the lanterns.
The lantern ceremony is part of an ancient Buddhist ritual that
commemorates the lives of loved ones who have passed away. It has been
used for many years on Hiroshima Peace Day to remember those lost in
the atomic bombings in Japan.http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/Lantern-ceremony-tonight-marks-A-bomb-tragedies-52580682.html

who will light a lantern for the millions of people the japanese slaughtered on the way to the bomb being dropped on them?

wait a minute.. why are they calling the bombs a tragedy?

The death of thousands is a tragedy, just as the death of millions of Russians, and hundreds of thousands of Rwandans. Death at the hand of another is always a tragedy, whether the instrument is an atomic bomb or a machete.

Tragically, these deaths saved untold numbers of lives of Allied forces who were preparing to invade the Japanese homeland and the millions of Japanese civilians who would have died in that event or who would have taken their own lives as was seen in some of the outlying islands when the Americans landed.

"Death at the hand of another is always a tragedy, whether the instrument is an atomic bomb or a machete"
Wouldn;t the conventional bombings of Tokoyo be bigger more acknowledged tragedies then just based on the number of deaths and casualities and amount of destruction?

"A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic" - Josef Stalin.

Deank wrote:wait a minute.. why are they calling the bombs a tragedy?

Maybe they do not understand that as ironic as it sounds, the A-bomb was the best thing to happen to World Peace ever. I think it was the moment when the average person realized that we were too powerful for our own good.

If it were not for that bomb being dropped, World War 3 would have started during the Cuban missle crisis. The Russians knew the damage of Hiroshima, and wisely backed down.

HurtinAlbertan wrote:

Deank wrote:wait a minute.. why are they calling the bombs a tragedy?

Maybe they do not understand that as ironic as it sounds, the A-bomb was the best thing to happen to World Peace ever. I think it was the moment when the average person realized that we were too powerful for our own good.

If it were not for that bomb being dropped, World War 3 would have started during the Cuban missle crisis. The Russians knew the damage of Hiroshima, and wisely backed down.

I was agreeing with you til I remembered that there has been constant war since that time...Korea, Nam, Iraq, etc.

But it has prevented another 'nuclear war'...indeed it has...but for how long will that continue..??