There are a few shows about the Hiroshima bombing on the tv at the moment, it being 60 years. The first i knew about it was as an infant, going to Cheadle Hulme Library; there was a picture book describing what happened, and i remember sitting on the floor reading it in one go : i was probably about 9. Then in the early 1980's a heap of us had psychic readings from a lady called Cameron : she told me i had been imprisoned in Japan, although i looked Japanese, because i had an English father and passport; and died by my own hands in 1946 because the cancers from the bombings were killing me anyway (I tore this up yesterday : she also said i was going to be a musician and by now would have been married 25 years - deserve my money back love ;-). Late on Sunday night i watched Hiroshima (1995) which was really a doco with direct memories from survivors, both American vets and Japanese victims; and both simulated and real footage (the black rain). Yesterday a taxi driver from Hong Kong who moved here in 1964 told me, after saying he never went to pubs because from the start people called him a japo, defended the American bombing; his parents loathed the Japanese. That made it easier to watch a show the next night on the horrific Japanese prisoner of war camps. Tonight it is a show on the submarine that infiltrated Sydney Harbour. Funnilly enough i got some light relief as the BBC show, Night and Day, which was booted off in both UK and here for low ratings, but i found entertaining. I would never condone racism : however environment can affect and mutilate human emotions and behaviour. I haven't been to Japan, but this makes it clearer to me why people hated the Japanese ... in the same vein, i was vastly relieved when Keifer Sutherland started turning up in ads to say that 24 is not directed against Muslims, but against terrorists. That that had to be spelled out, and was, speaks volumes. Today's bread wasnt too good at all! ;-(