THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Friday, August 9, 1996 TAG: 9608090005
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A16 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Letter
LENGTH: 30 lines
According to a recent front-page article, a two-hour film of grotesque scenes of the A-bomb destruction that exploded over Hiroshima will be shown at the Hiroshima Peace Museum ``to let the facts about the bombing be known through education and research.''
Will the museum also show a two-hour film of grotesque scenes of the destruction that exploded at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, to let the facts be known about that infamous Japanese attack?
FRANCES T. SLEDGE
Portsmouth, Aug. 5, 1996
Regarding ``Hiroshima aniversary: Lost images'' (front-page, Aug. 5): Isn't this sympathy going to the wrong country?
Wasn't it Japan that dropped the first bombs? Wasn't it Japan that sent our ships and our men to watery graves at Pearl Harbor? And while they were at it, didn't they machine-gun innocent women and children from their warplanes?
Wasn't it Japan that cut our supply lines and bombed our aircraft carriers?
How many of our children did Japan leave without fathers and mothers? What about the atrocities and the infamous Death March?
The words of Franklin D. Roosevelt ring as true today as they did more than a half-century ago in December 1941: A day that will live in infamy.
TRUDI RIGANTO
Virginia Beach, Aug. 5, 1996 by CNB