sadako sasaki and the thousand paper cranes is good too. but a couple of people that wrote books isn't the same as an entire country giving a day of mourning for the soldiers.
Humans, as a whole, are selfish. @ Minus Xero - Each an every person is right based on their own perceptions. For example, I could say that a table is a chair, however that table, to you, would be a table and the chair a chair. But, because this is my own perception, it is right to me. What do you mean by bad. Not everyone finds murder to be a bad action. Sorry to say but some find it to be a good action that brings them pleasure. (I am in no way saying that I find it a good and pleasurable action) Once again it all comes down to the individual and their own perceptions.
As a few other people have said, you have to accept the fact that this is America. You can't expect the nation to put in memory all of the innocent Japanese civilians who died on the day of the nuclear bombings. The nation will remember those who fought for us and gave their lives for the sake of this country. And plus, Americans are not going to mourn the losses of Iraqi civilians. Again, people will mourn the loss of their own country's people. You honestly don't think that every person who joins the armed forces knows immediately that they're going to die, do you? They go in with optimism, saying that they'll die for the country. But not necessarily that they'll die for sure. If soldiers were so pessimistic, they wouldn't have enlisted. The only reason we bombed Japan is because they bombed us. I mean, I'm not saying that what we did was correct. But in war, that's expected. At the time, Americans weren't aware of how much people 2 nuclear bombs would actually kill. Unfortunatley, it killed 120,000 people. It was done so that they could get an understanding of what they did to us. They bombed us, killed our men and women. We bombed them back, killed theirs. That's war talk, and I don't think that way. But back then, they thought it was the right thing to do. Don't criticize for what happened back then. People catched on in time that what they did was partially a mistake. And one last thing. If you expect the country to stop mourning war losses, put yourself in their situation. If you're closest, closest friend was sent off to war and was killed in action, you would be just like them. Your input is your input, but think about this.
Japan attacked a perfectly plausible military target, killing military personel. America bombed two cities, killing over a hundred thousand instantly, with casualties mounting up from the affects of radiation. Please, Girios, tell me where the logic is in that.
The people in Japan aren't mourning the innocent people of Pearl Harbor, then why should we mourn the innocent people of Japan?
If you read carefully, at the time, it was what America thought was the right thing to do. It's war, and it's expected. They bomb us, we bomb them bigger. I don't think it was the right thing to do, Cameron. But they thought it was back then.