Posted on 08/06/2007 2:34:34 PM PDT by The Noodle
Atomic bomb survivors share stories in HBO film
NEW YORK (AP) -- HBO's disturbing documentary on survivors of the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan didn't make the 50th anniversary of the event.
There's apparently enough emotional scar tissue built up to allow the television premiere of "White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki" on Monday (7:30 p.m. Eastern), exactly 62 years after the United States detonated the first-ever nuclear bomb over Hiroshima. The second, and so far last, atomic bomb was dropped three days later. It ended World War II.
The uncomfortable footage of cities reduced to rubble and grotesquely deformed survivors has received relatively little circulation because -- unlike the well-recorded Holocaust -- this was something done by Americans, Sheila Nevins, head of HBO's documentary unit, said. ...
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And by no means am I suggesting that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are remotely similar to what happened in Nanking and elsewhere as a result of Japanese atrocities. It is also absurd and offensive to compare Hiroshima and Nagasaki to the Holocaust.
Only to a conservative.
To a Liberal, all violence is morally equal. (...except for the Communist stuff. It never really happened at all. Communism is terrific! ...really!)
all this SHOULD be shown to alert the left as to what can happen with al Q@uida getting ahold of nuclear weapons.
But then as Cindy sheehan said “If they come over here I will hit them with a rolling pin!”
Does Sheila Nevins, head of the HBO documentary unit, have an agenda or ax to grind? For her to say that these bombings were done by America, unlike the Holocaust, which was well documented, certainly makes one think that this is a biased one-sided documentary worthy of Michael Moore.
The imperialistic US should apologize for starting WWII and then to drop atomic bombs on a poor innocent country minding its own business is just horrible. How can America live with itself...
At least an entire generation has been taught (in many schools) that America is an oppressor nation. This is just to reinforce that false idea.
The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ended WWII, and thus are events to be celebrated!
HBO will not talk about the real lesson of the Pacific War:
Don’t ever attack the U.S. Don’t even think about it as it will go badly for you.
Seems to be a lesson that is difficult for some to learn.
Bataan Death March anyone?
Having not seen this documentary it’s hard for me to comment.
However, if liberal schisters continue to revise history in an adverse and untrue manner (like Zinn and his Peoples History Tome)...what should we do about it? Boycotts do not work and legal action would be tough, since they would have first amendment protection.
Agreed having delivered textbooks to high schools as a summer job, once upon a time, I can attest to that.
Remember!
I do not believe that the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki should be celebrated. And that does not mean that they are to be condemned either.
How could Japan complain about what anyone did to it in defense? Thank God we stopped them and not a second too soon.
If these were the ONLY two nuclear bombs ever dropped, what happened in Arizona? What did we do during the Cold War?
They were the only bombs dropped in wartime on populated centers, but they weren't the only nukes ever dropped.
I’ll watch this documentary before I hate it.
Unless they’re showing “Grave of the Fireflies” in the original double feature with “My Neighbor Totoro” (no dubs), there is no sense in tuning in.
The only Japanese slanted WWII movie I’ll watch.
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