8) Little Boy and Fat Man

I watched a documentary on the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The film focused on the testimony of survivors, all of which were children at the time of the blast. The film depressed me in many ways, but two things remained with me almost a week later. The bombs deformed the children so badly that they were discriminated by the rest of the country. Not only did they lose their families, were permanently deformed and stricken with medical problems the rest of their lives, but they were labeled freaks by their own countrymen.

The second thing that stayed with me is how the survivors blamed themselves for what happened. They did not feel vengeful. They felt shame and regret. Breaks my heart to think about it.