One of the biggest perks of editing the L.A. Times’ letters page is having access to an abundance of historical primary source material written by our readers. So too was I riveted by some of the reader responses to our Aug. 8 letters on the 75th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Sherman Oaks resident Emil Lawton recalls preparing for an invastion of Japan:Thanks to the L.A. Times for publishing the letters on the atomic bomb. Our ship was being equipped for the invasion when the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945. We had been fighting a war against two military regimes that had no respect for human life.

Source: Los Angeles Times August 15, 2020 10:03 UTC