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Just as certain as heat and humidity, each August brings public hand-wringing and lamentation over the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
Sure enough, this year we have been treated to a visit of the Eternal Flame of Remembrance from Hiroshima and televised interviews with a survivor of the bombing.
Somehow, in all the public display of grief, the fact that the atomic bombings ended World War II–despite the Japanese vow to fight to the last man, woman and child–is forgotten.
In addition, an estimated 1 million U.S. and Allied casualties (dead and wounded) were avoided.
When remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it is incumbent upon us to also remember who started the war–and to remember Pearl Harbor, Corregidor and Bataan.
