Tag: Wages of Destruction

Ten years following the drop of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the emotional and physical scars created by the bombing were still prominent in Hiroshima. Reverend Kiyoshi Tanimoto of Japan and Norman Cousins, an American editor who worked to bring awareness to the struggle of Japanese war victims created a program to fly women, who […]

Rehabilitation conveys a connotation of ‘fixing’ something: drug addicts go to rehab to mend their addiction, veterans rehab to undo the horrors of the war—whether physical or psychological, and so on. However, rehabilitation encompasses much more than that, as symbolized

  During World War II, the Allies were fighting against the Axis Powers. Two countries that were enemies during the war were the United States and Japan. The Japanese were strong willed fighters and refused to give up, so the Allies unfortunately were left to making the decision to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima […]

Following the Second World War people across the world were faced with challenges that they could never imagine. Soldiers returning home lost limbs and did not know how they could go on living their normal day to day lives. Even civilians faced hardships they could never imagine, people received severe damage from bombs that forever … Continue reading “Healing the Hurt”

Nearing the end of World War II, the Allied forces were desperate to end the fighting with Japan in the Pacific. For the American troops it seemed as though the Japanese would not have surrendered until every soldier and citizen … Continue reading →