75 years ago, on the night before August 6, 1945 the people of Hiroshima slept, not yet knowing it was possible to burn a city with a single bomb. Now we know. But as Baldwin wrote, “People find it very difficult to act on what they know.”
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My father went ashore in Hiroshima 6 months afterwards as a member of a medical team. Then to Nagasaki for the same purpose. He'd been a medic with Marines in island fighting of '43 and '44. He said he was completely unprepared for the horrible injuries of the survivors.
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The framing “the bombing was unavoidable” is intended to hit any critical selflection
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I appreciate this memorial about my father by @ggrenwald above any I have read today--for his comprehensive review of his bio & history, for his attention to themes generally overlooked about his post-Vietnam life, but particularly for deep appreciation of his human qualities.🙏
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Here's my @RollingStone article on Daniel Ellsberg, the heroic Pentagon Papers leaker who died today at 92:
"We’re Told Never to Meet Our Childhood Heroes. Knowing Daniel Ellsberg Proved That Wrong"
rollingstone.com/politics/polit
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