Aug 06
This Day In History shows up in my email about five o'clock every morning, Aug 06 billed famously or infamously as the first execution in the electric chair, 1890, with a horrifying description of the man's death; much less notice being taken of his axe murder of his lover.
More recent, in my memory, the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, 1945, reportedly, over the years the numbers growing with each telling, killing 80,000 people instantly,
another 40,000 three days later when we dropped the second bomb on Nagasaki, tens of thousands dying of injuries and radiation in days, weeks and months following; but Japan unconditionally surrendering days later, ending WW2 and preventing potentially hundreds of thousands of young American deaths in our otherwise imminent invasion of Japan of Pearl Harbor infamy and memory. There in history, I remember it before all the moralizing and politicizing began, as a Time of national relief and celebration at finally closing a period of unspeakable human cruelty and war that we had not started, but did end conclusively, albeit in a final show of our own inhumanity, for the moment.
As it happens over the years, most of This Day In History has to do with people killing each other one way or another, anyone besides me had enough?!
Local and current but passing, August 06, bright and sunny, began from 7H with, hanging over Davis Point, an anvil cloud that itself is already history.
Pic above, psychologically for agenda effect, Hiroshima's Methodist Church post-blast.
T
More recent, in my memory, the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, 1945, reportedly, over the years the numbers growing with each telling, killing 80,000 people instantly,
another 40,000 three days later when we dropped the second bomb on Nagasaki, tens of thousands dying of injuries and radiation in days, weeks and months following; but Japan unconditionally surrendering days later, ending WW2 and preventing potentially hundreds of thousands of young American deaths in our otherwise imminent invasion of Japan of Pearl Harbor infamy and memory. There in history, I remember it before all the moralizing and politicizing began, as a Time of national relief and celebration at finally closing a period of unspeakable human cruelty and war that we had not started, but did end conclusively, albeit in a final show of our own inhumanity, for the moment.
As it happens over the years, most of This Day In History has to do with people killing each other one way or another, anyone besides me had enough?!
Local and current but passing, August 06, bright and sunny, began from 7H with, hanging over Davis Point, an anvil cloud that itself is already history.
Pic above, psychologically for agenda effect, Hiroshima's Methodist Church post-blast.
T