Dates and places become linked in the imagination, birthdays, anniverseries etc and places holding meaning such as UN heritage sites.
Indubitably the depth of meaning associated with the events of Hiroshima are near impossible to confront in their totality except as the final tragedy and showdown between conflicting forces.
The curtain being drawn on that titanic six year struggle as more and more were drawn into a whirlpool of destruction.
In the final year of this war well really between may 44 and September 45 more lkives were lost than in all the previous years. dating back to September 39.
This was a climactic struggle so what can be said simply and succinctly?
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