It was this article in Time that got me to think about this topic Nine Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Swear Words | TIME.com While it is an interesting read it doesn’t tell the whole story from my point of view. Please let me give you a few thoughts of my own on cussing and swearing. As kids we were raised in Liverpool, England. Our mother was a quiet soul and Dad was a police officer in Liverpool. He had a total abhorrence toward anyone that swore in front of Mum. To this day I do not know if he found out about this episode. My younger brother Peter had returned home from school and inquired of Mum whether there was anything to eat. Mum…
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The Dropping of the Bomb on Hiroshima was horrific
Published by Stephen Bentley on August 5, 2015The dropping of the A Bomb on Hiroshima was horrific. The above article by Rupert Wingfield-Hayes of the BBC (The ‘sanitised narrative’ of Hiroshima’s atomic bombing) is full of reminders about the terrifying impact the dropping of the bombs had on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the survivors. In it he uses Jamal as a vehicle for articulation of current American thinking about Hiroshima. Jamal is a young man and a student at Princeton University in the USA. The article appears to me to be a criticism of how and why the decision behind the dropping of the bomb has been viewed in America since the end of WW2. It appears to urge a rethink on the ‘sanitised narrative’. I would have to add…