On August 7, the Catholic Church Urakami Cathedral in Nagasaki held the ceremony for the return of the "A-bombed Cross." The cross is about 1 meter high and 30 centimeters wide. It is bordered with gold, and the paint is peeling and scratched in places.
In 1945, U.S. soldier Walter Hook, who died at 97 in 2010, found the cross in the rubble of the Urakami Cathedral. Mr. Hook donated the cross to the Wilmington Peace Museum in Ohio in 1982. It had been exhibited along with other A-bomb materials.
"I came to think that the cross should be returned to Urakami. This cross embodies the cruelty of war and the suffering it brings," said Tanya Mouse, who visited Japan.
"I don't think the American perception of the atomic bombings will change any time soon, but shedding light on the cross will remind us of the inhuman and destructive aspects of nuclear weapons," she continued, "My father always questioned the atomic bomb on Urakami, saying it had no strategic value."
The cross will be presented at Urakami Cathedral on August 9.
If we hadn't nuked them and immediately ended the war, you would have taken a bigger piece of Japan and it would be a 2nd world shithole today like everything else touched by Russians
I don't know which is better... every poster insult japan for being american slaves.
I don't like modern japan.
Christian Diaz
both are christianity same thing
Xavier Diaz
The army isn't what the US was worried about. We worried about the civilian population fighting to end. Like it or not, nuking Japan saved fifteem million lives and the the stability of Japan. Just ignore them.
Kayden King
I know being russia's dog is worse. but I don't like modern japan's politics.
I wish ww2 Japan was neutral like swiss. ww2 ruined everything.
Jeremiah Parker
>I suffer in japan
Jacob Phillips
HERBERT HOOVER, former US president:
"The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul."
"...the Japanese were prepared to negotiate all the way from February 1945...up to and before the time the atomic bombs were dropped; ...if such leads had been followed up, there would have been no occasion to drop the [atomic] bombs."
"Use of the bomb had besmirched America's reputation, he [Hoover] told friends. It ought to have been described in graphic terms before being flung out into the sky over Japan."
Luis Morales
alright it's 10PM go to bed
Christian Adams
>americans still think they are heroes for frying 80k civvies alive >h-heh you'd be speaking german now if it weren't for my granpappy gee thanks kyle
Sebastian Reed
you are typical braindead Japanese.
Brayden Ramirez
GENERAL DOUGLAS MacARTHUR
MacArthur biographer William Manchester has described MacArthur's reaction to the issuance by the Allies of the Potsdam Proclamation to Japan: "...the Potsdam declaration in July, demand[ed] that Japan surrender unconditionally or face 'prompt and utter destruction.' MacArthur was appalled. He knew that the Japanese would never renounce their emperor, and that without him an orderly transition to peace would be impossible anyhow, because his people would never submit to Allied occupation unless he ordered it. Ironically, when the surrender did come, it was conditional, and the condition was a continuation of the imperial reign. Had the General's advice been followed, the resort to atomic weapons at Hiroshima and Nagasaki might have been unnecessary."
Jaxson Baker
you learned word braindead boy. good boy!!
Jacob Brown
DWIGHT EISENHOWER, former US president
"During his recitation of the relevant facts, I had been conscious of a feeling of depression and so I voiced to him my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives. It was my belief that Japan was, at that very moment, seeking some way to surrender with a minimum loss of 'face'. The Secretary was deeply perturbed by my attitude..."
Colton Watson
ADMIRAL WILLIAM D. LEAHY
"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."
Gavin Jackson
>80k The death toll from both cities combined was over 400k, you idiot. Besides, the destruction of Tokyo was more damaging.
Landon Ortiz
are you christian?
Juan Collins
I'm so happy that WW2 happened, so now you slant eye gooks is now US property.
Jeremiah Collins
shut the fuck up, Croatia wasn't even a legitimate country in WW2.
Easton Turner
getting nuked is a hundred times better fate than succumbing to the red menace
Easton Evans
yes, praise be Jesus!
Nicholas Jones
Agnostic.
Connor Smith
then why didn't Japan surrender after the first bomb?
Brayden Parker
it's unending nightmare for Japan.
Lucas Ward
We should've nuked them a month earlier. No soviet invasion means no communist china, no north korea, and the japs get to keep their kurils
Josiah Williams
No it didnt. the reason why the nuke was deployed was for testing purposes.
Owen Collins
I would enjoy killing eurofags again so much. I wish I could go back to those days.
>Let me tell you about your own history Kill yourself.
Nathan Taylor
>be usa >blast some random beach in Normandy >almost no germans there >"woo that sure was a tought call, "Day D was the most important moment of WWII, we just save europe from the nazis. If it wasnt for my grandpops and Day D Yurop would be speaking german today :)"
