Monthly Archives: July 2005

The "Greatest Generation" Veterans and the Bomb 0

(Distributed by The New York Times Syndicate) Sixty years after the bomb fell on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, and on Nagasaki three days later, the number of "Greatest Generation" veterans is dwindling. It is all the more important, then, to heed their perspective on an event–the first use of nuclear weapons–that has haunted the [...]