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...killed by the Bomb are annually commemorated this way in Japan, where floating paper lanterns are a symbol of dead souls. Similar lights bobbed along dozens of other U.S. waterways last week. Said Cameron Gundersen, a pediatrician in La Crosse: "The purpose of this commemoration is not to assign guilt or linger among the images of death but to remind ourselves of what we are capable of doing. We are capable of destroying the world's civilization. More important, we are capable of preventing that...
...like a hotel,” he says with nostalgia, before adding, with more than a little patrician guilt, “I’m sure that those women made next to nothing...
...President, I know and I understand, we all do, that you seek reconciliation. So do I. So do we. And I, too, wish to attain true reconciliation with the German people. I do not believe in collective guilt, nor in collective responsibility. Only the killers were guilty. Their sons and daughters...
Throughout the 13-month trial, the 15 Israeli defendants had worn self-assured smiles. The men described themselves as defenders of Jewish rights in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Although many of them admitted their guilt, they seemed confident that they would be acquitted by an Israeli court. The crimes of which they stood accused, they declared, had been committed in response to terrorist acts by Arabs. But last week, when a three-judge panel found the 15 guilty on charges ranging from murder and attempted murder to conspiracy and possession of arms, their certainty gave way to shock...
...people believe that a nuclear deterrent is the way to go. For that reason we get satisfaction from our work by contributing to our personal and national safety. It's corny--wave the flag--but it's true." As for those who dropped the Hiroshima bomb, she says that guilt or conscience ought not to be the consideration. "If a policeman shoots a felon, there's no guilt, only regret. You just wish the world had been different...