This week marks the 80th anniversary of our country dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A few days after the bombings, on August 15, 1945, Japan surrendered, effectively ending World War II. Where were you when you got news of these events? Likely, most of you were not born. But I was a 5-year-old beginning my life as a news junkie. My family did not have a TV, and we got all our news through the radio. Even at age 5, I loved to listen to the radio.

So when the news about Japan’s surrender came across the radio broadcast, my five-year-old ears and brain scrambled to understand what this meant. For me, it was simple: The Japanese had surrendered and the war was ending. This was, all in all, good news. It was cause to celebrate our resourceful and powerful country.

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