Wednesday, August 6, 2025

The Bombing of Hiroshima, Eighty Years Later

Hiroshima, August 6, 1945. Eighty years ago.

100,000 people died instantly. Tens of thousands more died horribly in the minutes, hours, and days that followed: "...their faces were wholly burned, their eyesockets were hollow, the fluid from their melted eyes had run down their cheeks” (John Hersey, Hiroshima).

O God, have mercy on us!