Today is the anniversary of the attack on Nagasaki. Tens of thousands of civilians were killed and maimed. Others suffered immediate and long-term effects of radiation.
It is curious that no one remembers the pilot's name. It was Maj. Charles Sweeney. This event changed the world--more than Kant or Patton or Booth did--yet somehow the complexities and the distances create a cloudy barrier as if no individual was really involved.
On the other hand it is doubtful that most under the age of twenty-five have ever heard of the attack on Nagasaki so maybe, like all great and riveting events, it is just metabolized by time.
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