War and History Poetry posted August 2, 2013


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Acrostic about original 'WMDs' (see author's notes)

Little Boy and Fat Man

by teafor2


Listing several
Imperious reasons,
The President, Harry
Truman, decided
Less lives would be lost if
Enola Gay dropped an 'a'

Bomb on Hiroshima's
Ordinary seaport; fallout
Yielded

A morbid
National cover, but it
Did not deter USA

From dropping
A second 'A' bomb
To help make up the

Minds of top Japanese officials for
A decisive end to WWII: bombing of
Nagasaki's seaport...a truce maker!
 



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During August 1945 the USA dropped two atotmic bombs
on two separate cities in South West Japan, on two
separate days: on August 6, 1945 the first 'a' bomb
(code name, Little Boy) was dropped over the 1st sea-
port. LB killed over 130,000 people, but Japanese of-
ficials did not respond quickly enough, three days la-
ter, on August 9, 1945 the USA dropped another 'A'
bomb (code name, Fat Man) on a difference seaport. Af-
ter FM, killed over 70,000 people, Japan's top leader(s)
wasted no time in signing a truce to end WWII.

WMDs (n): Weapons of Mass Destruction.

Imperious (adj): intensely compelling; urgent.

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