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Postcard from Hiroshima

7th August 2019 Going Postal 0

This is a note about my visit to the Peace Memorial Museum at Hiroshima.  Some of what follows is gruesome. I’ve long been interested in military history, and I’ve been fortunate to visit the site [more…]

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