Lay off grandpa
Interesting subject but the narrator centers it around her own tangential connection (her grandpa was one of thousands who worked on the atomic project). She is overdramatic and has some really weird generational guilt thing going on. The Japanese are portrayed as total victims without a mention of their hideous treatment of civilians or the opportunities they had to surrender. I find it gross that she says she is happy her grandpa (who she never met and doesn’t have much info on) had a mental break later in life. Very harsh judgment of people who were in a difficult and morally ambiguous situation.
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