# This photo and description may be the saddest thing I have ever seen

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 15, 2020, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-photo-and-description-may-be-the-saddest-thing-i-have-ever-seen/918174 "2020-08-15T11:25:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2020, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-photo-and-description-may-be-the-saddest-thing-i-have-ever-seen/918174/34 "2020-08-16T18:23:47Z")

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[Moderating again]

This thread is about one specific photograph depicting one specific incident. Yes, of course there’s a lot of history that leads up to that incident. But that’s not the subject of this thread. If you want to debate the merits of the use of atomic bombs, or various nations’ culpability before, during, and after the World Wars, those would be perfectly legitimate topics of discussion… for Great Debates. Not for Cafe Society.

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