[WillowTheWhisp]

This is such an emotive subject. I can see your point and the way the Japanese treated thir POWs was despicable, but it broke my heart to see children of Hiroshima suffering and dying. The mother who could not get her child out from under the rubble and heard the cries as the fire burned her to death - I cannot begin to imagine how that mother must have felt as she kept saying "I'm a bad mother to you." over and over again.

I think we've had documentaries about the treatment of POWs before and things like the building of the Burma railway but I've never seen Hiroshima from the Japanese side before.

Recently there has been criticism of the cheering and jubilation shown by some muslims on hearing of the London bombings and previously the WTC towers, but last night showed equal jubilation from US soldiers when they were told of the bombing of Hiroshima. That kind of levelled the field a bit for me. It's easy to paint an "us and them" image with "us" as the goodies and "them" as the baddies but we are all human beings with very similar feelings and anything which helps us to understand that has got to be a good thing.