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one hundred years of solitude
Title: one hundred years of solitude
Category: History
Details: Words: 4064 | Pages: 17.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
one hundred years of solitude
Road to Eternity
It was quite probably the most important event of World War II. Its consequences were greater than those of any other event of the war. On the morning of August 6, 1945, a B-29 bomber named Enola Gay flew over the Japanese industrial city of Hiroshima and dropped the first atomic bomb through its hatches. The city went up in a fireball, causing destruction unlike anything the world had ever seen. The fact that …showed first 75 words of 4064 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 4064 total…has come when we must bear the unbearable.” (Thomas 323)
The war was over. American celebrated August 14 as Victory over Japan day (VJ-Day), church bells rang, jubilant crowds danced in the streets, fireworks filled the skies, and war weary citizens from New York to San Francisco greeted the peace with flourish of uncorked energy. As Americans celebrated, the Japanese grieved for a nation defeated in war and for two cities sacrificed for the cause of peace.
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