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Their Lives For Ours
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Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor began our war with Japan.
Our dropping of atomic bombs ended it and saved
several millions of lives.

Their Lives For Ours

This is Pearl Harbor Day
when Japan attacked it
killing Americans in a
ruthless aggressive war

Today balances well
August 6tth of 1945
when the United States
dropped the first atomic
bombs on Hiroshima
saving millions of
lives when we invaded

Modern-day Japan
and bleeding hearts
cannot erases that
nation's deliberate
attack on Hawaii
I was in the Pacific
my life saved by
two atomic bombs


F William Broome 2008

   

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 Reviews of "Their Lives For Ours"
Reviewed by Dawn Anderson
Reviewed on December 8, 2008
You've penned a beautiful reminder...

Reviewed by Gene Williamson
Reviewed on December 7, 2008
I was at Okinawa at the time the bombs were dropped. Great
celebration aboard the ship. But then ours was one of the
first US ships to visit Nagasaki after the bomb. It was not
a celebatory site. See my 1945 Revisited. Thanks for this, Bill.

-gene.

Reviewed by Beryl McMullen
Reviewed on December 7, 2008
Well said Bill Dad was in the RAF and many of his friends were captured by the Japanese - I will say no more. . .

Reviewed by Karen Vanderlaan
Reviewed on December 7, 2008
and my grandfather was proud to help design those war-ending bombs--a good poem to help us remember


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