Noted humorist Dave Barry went through Japan and wrote of his travels in one of his many books. It was all light-hearted and funny until he got to the part about being in Hiroshima on the anniversary. There were all kinds of speakers talking about how this should never happen again, how there should be no more suffering such as the atomic bomb caused.

Even this humorist took a sidetrack from his usual writings to say that he wanted to scream in the middle of the ceremony "Do you not KNOW WHY this happened???". It's like the country had collectively erased everything from the rape of Nanking to Perl Harbor from their collective memory.

Once again, people remember the terrible end and forget what horrible circumstances brought people TO that end. The remember the symptom and forget the diseaase.