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1 " Civilians!” they read in Japanese. “Evacuate at once! “These leaflets are being dropped to notify you that your city has been listed for destruction by our powerful air force. “This advance notice will give your military authorities ample time to take necessary defensive measures to protect you from our inevitable attack. Watch and see how powerless they are to protect you. Systematic destruction of city after city will continue as long as you blindly follow your military leaders whose blunders have placed you on the very brink of oblivion. It is your responsibility to overthrow the military government now and save what is left of your beautiful country. “In the meanwhile, we encourage all civilians to evacuate at once. "
― Bill O'Reilly , Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan
2 " Lauren Bacall stands "
3 " President Franklin Roosevelt issues a special exhortation. He encourages citizens not just to give thanks but to read their own version of Scripture every day between now and Christmas to ensure “a renewed and strengthening contact with those eternal truths and majestic principles which have inspired such measure "
4 " he walks "
5 " Estimates of the number of people killed by Stalin range from as low as twenty million to as high as sixty-two million “unnatural deaths” during Stalin’s time as Soviet leader. The man who is credited with saying that “death solves all problems” and “One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic” murdered his own citizens through executions, artificial famines, forced-labor camps, incarceration, and torture. "
6 " they respect the private; he is the company "
7 " tactician. He also has a deep understanding of Japanese culture, believing that the nation "
8 " Love,” he will respond, answering his own question. “I loved my men and they loved me … I just couldn’t give them up, just like a mother couldn’t give up the child.”7 * "
9 " behaving in an almost giddy fashion, some slathering on sunscreen in "
10 " Corporal "
11 " His wife greets him warmly as his two young "
12 " December "
13 " The land of the rising sun—ANCIENT CHINESE DESCRIPTION OF JAPAN, REFERRING TO THE MORNING SUN’S REACHING THE ISLANDS OF JAPAN BEFORE THE ASIAN MAINLAND "
14 " When you have to deal with a beast you have to treat him as a beast. It is most regrettable but nevertheless true.” * "
15 " ignominy "
16 " Roosevelt has no problem with this; he likes Joseph Stalin and believes he can trust him. "
17 " Thomas Jefferson Day, the anniversary of the third president’s birth. "
18 " The all-clear siren alerts the people who took shelter at the Hatchobori streetcar station that they can now emerge. Twenty-year-old Akiko Takakura is a cautious young woman, but she now resumes her journey to the Geibi Bank, where she does secretarial work. The bank, with its stone walls and armored window coverings that let in almost no light, is less than a half mile from the T-shaped Aioi Bridge spanning the Ota River—what will soon be ground zero. Three days ago, the clock tower at Hiroshima University stopped working at precisely 8: 15. The city lacks the spare parts and material to fix it, so the great clock looking down on all of Hiroshima remains frozen in time. As Akiko enters the lobby of her workplace, she notices that the bank clock in the lobby is just a few moments away from striking 8: 15. It is an omen Akiko will never forget. "
19 " In Los Alamos, New Mexico, Robert Oppenheimer stands before an auditorium filled with the scientists who designed and produced the atomic bomb. Clasping his hands over his head like a boxer entering the ring, he tells the cheering audience that it is “too early to determine what the results of the bombing might have been, but I’m pretty sure the Japanese didn’t like it.” Oppenheimer soon leaves the stage, but not before bringing down the house with his final comment: “My only regret is that we didn’t develop the bomb in time to use it against the Germans. "
20 " It has taken the marines an average of 1,500 rounds of ammunition to kill just one Japanese soldier. More than 13 million bullets were fired by the Americans, along with 150,000 mortar rounds. "
