VJ day
14th of August is VJ day in England. VJ is "Victory over Japan." 60 years after the World War Two,having the celebration of Victory surprised and shocked me. In fact we lost. But War is not something to win or to lose. I assume every country committed to the war lost. Because we, not only Japan but also England, lost precious lives, our family, friends..., got our cities damaged. How can English say that they have won after so much damage? And the "victory" was the result of A-bombs. People know the A-bombs were dropped over the 2 cities in Japan in 1945. But non-Japanese people don't know much about the effect of the bombs. They don't know how many people were killed at the moment the bomb explorded. They don't know how much they suffered from the simptons from the radiation long time after the war.... That ignorance inspired me. Now I have been reading books about the war in Japan especially about the A-bombs. I would like to introduce some books to the school library. Probably I can talk about the A-bombs at school...