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Good afternoon and welcome to the gators bergh book festival, a resident here and id represent districts 17. Welcome. Cases spurred is a city. Okay so please silence all your devices thank you, and if you are on social media today and we hope you are, please use the hashtag gps, gbf sorry. There will be service, and by submitting a survey youll be entered in a draw to win a 100 dollar visit gift card. So i encourage each one of you to enter into that survey and at the end of this presentation, mr. Surely will be signing books and copies are on sale in this tent and around the grounds here. Make sure you take advantage of having renowned author mr. Shirley here. So this is a free event and but it does help, the book festival if you buy a book. The more books we salute our event, the more publishers will want to send their authors here to speak with us. Pushing basically purchasing a book it basically helps our partners and calm the great independent bookstores that we have here. It supp
Lectures in history on American History tv on cspan3 every saturday at 8 00 eastern. Lectures available as a podcast, find it where you listen to podcast podcas podcasts. On august 6thropped, an arm b29 dropped atomic bomb number two on hiroshima, japans seventh largest city. Sion] a communications, military and Industrial Center of on of considerable importance. A stunned universe now swiftly learned mann had a new weapon o shocking destructiveness, a 70,0 weapon p boarding on the absolu. In the blast thousands died instantly, 70,000 missing, 140 i enthusiastic injury. Tyhed. Of those 43,000 were badly hur. The city was unbelievably crushed. Of por and 90,000 meetings overm demolished. Remains were aptly describedge as vapor and ashes. Ned an i man had torn from nature, newfound knowledge and fashioned instrument of annihilation. Menacing implications of this r extraordinary weapon were frightening to every day people. Isnt it terrible, all those. Peoplele killed. Days later another b
B29 dropped atomic bomb number two on hiroshima, japans seventh largest city. A communications, military and Industrial Center of considerable importance. A stunned universe now swiftly learned man had a new weapon of shocking destructiveness, a weapon boarding on the absolute. In the blast thousands died instantly. 70,000 persons listed as killed or missing, 140,000 were injured. Of those 43,000 were badly hurt. The city was unbelievably crushed. Of 90,000 meetings over 60,000 demolished. The remains were aptly described as vapor and ashes. Man had torn from nature, one of her inner most secrets and fashioned an instrument of annihilation. Menacing implications of this extraordinary weapon were frightening to every day people. What did you think of that bomb we dropped on the japs, mrs. Glenn . Isnt it terrible . All those people killed. Three days later another bomb dropped on the seaport of nag sa highly congested, the best natural harbor and extensive naval facilities. This bomb ex
Crushed. Of 90,000 meetings over 60,000 demolished. The remains were aptly described as vapor and ashes. Man had torn from nature, one of her inner most secrets and fashioned an instrument of annihilation. Menacing implications of this extraordinary weapon were frightening to every day people. What did you think of that bomb we dropped on the japs, mrs. Glenn . Isnt it terrible . All those people killed. Three days later another bomb dropped on the seaport of nagaski. Highly congested, the best natural harbor and extensive naval facilities. This bomb exploding took the lives of 42,000 persons and injured 40,000 more. It destroyed 39 of all the buildings standing in nagasaki before the calamity. Japanese described their bleak, mutilated city as a graveyard with not a tombstone standing. These two terrifying blows were struck at japan only after profound consideration of human military factors involved. The atomic bombs were dropped to end the war quickly, and they did end the war quickl