Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/08/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Aug 10, 2011, at 2:51 PM, Richard Man wrote: > Good for Milwaukee and good for you.... > > No Chinese should forget about the Japan Aggression in WWII > > and > > No human should forget about Hiroshima and Nagasaki > > I'm not entirely sure most American truly understand the magnitude of the > death and destruction rained on Japan those two days. > > On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 11:08 AM, George Lottermoser <imagist3 at > mac.com>wrote: > >> <http://www.imagist.com/blog/?p=5616> Thank you Richard. I suspect that with each year's passing fewer people remember the horror inflicted on civilian populations during past wars. World War II: 100 - 200,000 Japanese (Hiroshima and Nagasaki) 30,000 Germans (firebombing Dresden) 100,000 Japanese (firebombing Tokyo) 50 - 150,000 (Okinawa) between 3 and 6,000,000 Chinese (at the hands of Japan) and of course 6,000,000 Jews (at the hands of the Germans) (these are just big numbers) For numbers world wide due to WWII: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties#Total_Deaths> Vietnam: 843,000 civilian deaths Iraq: 100,000 and still counting - civilian deaths Afghanistan: 10,000 and counting - civilian deaths Regards, George Lottermoser george at imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist