The Nanking Massacre, A Tragedy Forgotten When mentioned, World War II rings images of cities ruined by German blitzes, Nazi Death Camps, D-Day and perhaps other cases of destruction, both material and human, on the European front. Yet, the most abhorrent deeds committed remain wrapped in a shroud of shadows as dark as their nature. The number dead from this genocide exceed even the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and rival the civilian death …
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…the government, the people, and the world soon, will forget. A mistake forgotten is likely to be recommitted. Let us learn a timeless lesson from this terrible tragedy, so that such a cataclysm may never again torment human lives. Let us honor the courage and bravery of those, like John Rabe, who dared to defy. Let us pity those lives extinguished and those shattered, and in turn, cherish our own years. Let us always remember.