Article: Victoria Advocate, Texas, News To Me column: War doesn't recognize differences between soldiers and civilians.(Column)

Byline: Jim Bishop

Aug. 5--"The survivors would envy the dead." NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV'S

comment On nuclear war

On Aug. 6, 1945, a small child sat on his daddy's knee in an American home, safe from harm, and listened to the celebration following the announcement that we had used an atomic bomb on Japan.

In Hiroshima, on the major Japanese island of Honshu that afternoon, another small child shivered as his mother carried him in her arms. His clothing had been burned off and his skin peeled back by the searing heat of that bomb, and his body was poisoned to his bone marrow by radiation.

This mother, also burned and suffering ...

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