Today I had  an, umm…., interesting discussion with a fellow market salesman (is that the correct word?Anyway, we sell our stuff outdoor at marketplaces). Well - this man is a darned genious when it comes to history. It seems there is nothing he does not know! He is so well-informed that it scares me. He is very cunning, and most sympathic.  And I do not dislike him as a person, even after what you are about to read. I just think that he, in this case, was wrong.

Well, we ended up discussing the Hiroshima bomb. In his opinion, they had it coming. In fact, they actually deserved it! “Why is that?” I asked. “-Well, you remember Pearl Harbour?” he asked me.    ”-Ehm…no, but I know of it.”(I was born 1960).  He went on: “-Here we have thousands of young american soldiers, sleeping at night in their ships and quarters - they don’t have a clue what is going to strike them. Japan attacked the Pearl Harbour without even having declared war against the USA. They didn’t stand a chance!”

He went on; “- So when USA dropped the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it was justice! Those fucking nipponesers asked for it! What did they expect, attacking one of the world’s greattest nations. How did they believe they would not be punished?”

To be honest: first I agreed to his reasoning.

But then I started thinking - feeling!

Killing is never OK. I can’t find any acceptance in my heart to take another person’s life.  “They asked for it….”?  “They had it coming…”????

I’m sorry, but I cannot see what  those little children, the hard working men, mothers and  fathers, people like you and me struggling to make end’s meet, hade done to the USA to deserve to be nuked???

The assault on Pearl Harbour was disgusting and totally outrageous. Japan had in fact not even declared war against USA before tha assault.

But…..

It was not those 3 year-old girls in kindergarten who attacked. It was not they who made the decicion. It was not they who killed all those american soldiers.

Vengeance?  Fuck you,  US.