A somber topic tonight

I’ve just watched a video of British soldiers who were on the boats the day of the Hiroshima bombings. It is a wake up call and a real shock to the system to hear tales of these men being told to face the opposite direction of the bombing site, and how when the bomb went off then the radioactive blast meant they were able to see their bones and blood vessels beneath their skin. How the mushroom cloud was so large they had to look at a 90° angle to see it

On these two days they estimate 226,000 may have been killed, both civilians and soldiers

In the video I saw one of the surviving Allied soldiers mentioned how there were approx 22,500 soldiers on those boats, and as of 2013 they estimated 13,500 of these men had died, with a very small minority dying ‘natural deaths’. The majority suffered with unusually high rates of cancer and other carcinogenic diseases

I have two questions:

• should we have a day or time period where we remember the losses and the tragedies of these two days?

• we remember everything that Hitler did, we remember Stalin’s body count, so why do we (western countries - predominantly the Allies) ignore the atrocities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, which were of our own creation?