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NutmegCT

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August 6, 1945. A day that changed us forever.

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For another take on the event:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HYEnjnu5RU

A film by Owen Plotkin, with Allan Ginsburg reading his poem "Plutonian Ode".
 
Without Truman's gut-wrenching decision to go forward with the attacks, it is very likely many of us wouldn't be here today. I know that's true in my case. The casualty numbers for the European liberation would have paled by comparison.
 
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