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| Topic | For those who attended HS in the US, how was Hiroshima covered in history class? |
| Aristoph 11/10/21 1:55:24 PM #38: | I remember that part of my history class pretty vividly because we had a really great teacher. He was an older guy, and was around 10 years old at the time of the bombings. He of course started the section off with the basic facts and what lead up to it. Overall that part went mostly "this sucked really hard, but we felt we had to do it to end the war, and in doing so it probably saved a lot more lives than it took in the end." It felt very generic and dispassionate for that first day. Almost deliberately so. Then I remember coming in the next day and he started the class off with some words that have stuck with me to this day. "Ok, so you know a bit about what happened and a bit about why it happened. But now I want you to understand who it happened to. Because it wasn't the Japanese military. It was people like you. People like your mom and dad. Like your brothers and sisters. Like your best friends. Imagine if everyone you know and love was gone in an instant. I won't tell you if it was justified or not. That's something you have to decide for yourself. But I want you to understand the cost." We then spent the next 3 days reading and talking about stories from survivors. --- PSN ID: Aristoph https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj5ydFYxnEODxpQeBswmiAA ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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