Listening to these folks, you would think acting to end WWII was a bad thing.

Tens of thousands of people from around the world gathered in Hiroshima on Sunday to pray for peace and urge the world to abandon nuclear weapons on the 61st anniversary of the first atomic bombing.

In an annual ritual to mourn the more than 220,000 people who ultimately died from the blast, a crowd including survivors, children and dignitaries gathered at the Peace Memorial Park, near ground zero where the bomb was dropped.

"Radiation, heat, blast and their synergetic effects created a hell on Earth," said Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba.

Remember -- the planned invasion of the home islands was expected to cost the US military over one million dead soldiers, sailors, and airmen. The Japanese death toll was expected to be higher, incuding the civilian dead (the Bushido code required suicide rather than capture or surrender).

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