Visiting Hiroshima was one of the most emotional experiences of my life. If anyone ever gets a chance to visit, do it. It is an amazing city.
You know, Kyoto was on the list as a potential target. I couldn't imagine all the wonderful things in that city that would have been wiped out.
And I believe the original target for the second bomb was Kokura, but they had too much cloud cover and moved on to the back up target Nagasaki. Unreal to think if you were a citizen of Kokura at the time to realize that you almost got an Atomic bomb dropped on you.
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