Sixty Years-
May We Never Forget
From:Bruderhof.com

On (Not) Getting Used to Hiroshima Day
Johann Christoph Arnold

As the 60th anniversary of Hiroshima approaches, attitudes toward it range mostly from the casual to the ignorant. Not that the menace is any less. Scientists say the world's nuclear arsenals contain enough firepower to blow up our entire planet. Flaring tempers in India and Pakistan have recently brought both nations to the brink of atomic war. Just last year, the White House announced its interest in further developing our nuclear stockpile - this time with more "usable" mini-nukes and weapons that could be launched from outer space.

Yet, as I look around at my children, my grandchildren, and their peers, I sense little, if any concern. Both generations have grown up since World War II. As the last hibakusha (A-bomb survivors) die over the next years, they will lose the opportunity of ever hearing a first-hand account. Before long, Hiroshima will be reduced to a sentence in the history books. The true magnitude of its horrors will be forgotten for good.

The dropping of the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is a horrifyingly perfect example of the awful paradox and its need to choose at times between the truly awful and the unthinkably terrible actions of war.