Letters to the Editor: 80 years on, remember victims of Hiroshima

A child prays at the Peace Memorial Park ahead of the memorial service to mark the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing in Hiroshima. Louise Delmotte/AP
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This week, we marked the 80th anniversary of the first nuclear bomb being dropped on the city and the people of Hiroshima. We honour and remember the victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, drawing focus on the horrific impact of nuclear bombs.
Some 214,000 people died… an overwhelming number. Buried in that awful statistic is the child victim figure of 38,000. Survivors envied the dead.
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