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Thursday, May 19, 2016

FREE BEACON: Obama’s Hiroshima Trip Fuels Questions, Concerns From American Veterans

WWII service members stress American, Japanese lives saved by atomic bombs

AP

BY: Morgan Chalfant
May 19, 2016 4:58 am

Barack Obama will become the first sitting president to visit Hiroshima later this month in an unprecedented move to push for a world without nuclear weapons.
The White House has cheered the move as an opportunity for the president to honor the dead of World War II, and more specifically those who died when the United States dropped the first deployed atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
But some retired U.S. veterans, including some from World War II, who spoke to the Washington Free Beacon about Obama’s forthcoming trip offered tepid if not critical perspectives of the move. Some characterized the trip as unnecessary and potentially damaging.