I started this blog because the atrocities that we do to each other are so horrifying, yet with time the images and stories grow dim in our minds. Or we were not born, and think they are just stories in a History lesson. I am posting these pictures and they are graphic, not to scare you or give you something to point at and say " oh how awful". I am posting these because they are what war is. Death and disfigurement, lives destroyed, because essentially two governments disagree on something that in all reality should not be worth innocent lives. People who are no different than us, in that they have their beliefs and customs who just happen to be different than ours. Really, who are we as humans in this world to judge? Can we judge because we don't have the same religious beliefs as another Nation? Who are they to judge us? These are my opinions and I am sure some may disagree. After all war has gone on for centuries. But does that make it right?These photographs, taken by an unknown Japanese photographer, were found in 1945 among rolls of undeveloped film in a cave outside Hiroshima by U.S. serviceman Robert L. Capp, who was attached to the occupation forces. Unlike most photos of the Hiroshima bombing, these dramatically convey the human as well as material destruction unleashed by the atomic bomb. Mr. Capp donated them to the Hoover Archives in 1998 with the provision that they not be reproduced until 2008.
