von John LaForge - www.antikrieg.com Hiroshima war "ein Militärstützpunkt". Die US-Atombombenabwürfe "beendeten den Krieg" und "verhinderten eine Invasion und retteten Leben". Die Atomwaffentests unserer Regierung an den Menschen in Hiroshima und Nagasaki vor 76 Jahren wurden mit diesen Mythen rationalisiert, die wahllose Zerstörung in eine "gute Sache" verwandelten. Diese Mythologie steht der Abschaffung von Atomwaffen…
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“The Japanese were ready to surrender and it wasn’t necessary to hit them with that awful thing.” Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
“In 1945 Secretary of War Stimson, visiting my headquarters in Germany, informed me that our government was preparing to drop an atomic bomb on Japan. I was one of those who felt that there were a number of cogent reasons to question the wisdom of such an act. … The Secretary, upon giving me the news of the successful bomb test in New Mexico, and of the plan for using it, asked for my reaction, apparently expecting a vigorous assent. During his recitation of the relevant facts, I had been conscious of a feeling of depression and so I voiced to him my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer
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Long road for a Pearl Harbor veteran, 99, ends with citizenship oath in San Antonio
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Heinz Bachman, 99, raises his hand Thursday to take the Oath of Allegiance before Tina Almond, director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services field office in San Antonio. . A Pearl Harbor survivor, Bachman became a citizen as a child when his dad was naturalized in 1934, but needed the proof to renew his Texas driver’s license.Lisa Krantz /Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
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Linda Arce gives her neighbor, Heinz Bachman, 99, a hug after he was sworn in as a U.S. citizen at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services field office in San Antonio on Thursday. At right is her sister, Diana Flores, also Bachman s neighbor since 1961. Bachman became a citizen as a child when his dad was naturalized in 1934, but needed the proof to renew his Texas driver’s license.Lisa Krantz /Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less