Crying+children

This is one of the most famous war pictures in history. It shows the cruelty of war, specially when children are involved.
 * CRYING CHILDREN**

The photographer who took the picture tried to portrait the horror of war. He took a photo of a group of scared children, who were crying badly, running out of their town, while their houses were burning down. The slim, naked girl was crying so badly, so scared, so helpless that we can imagine the horror she was living at the moment. This is a really great photo. I don't know who took it, but he did a great job.

I think the picture was taken during the bombing of the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6 1945. In 1945, when Truman was the president of the United States and the country was fighting against the German and the Japanese in World War II, some American scientists developed a new weapon: The Nuclear Bomb. A bomb that could destroy big cities in minutes. They did so in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Those bombings meant that the US Army had a weapon that no other country could have, so they had to surrender. It was the end of the war, but the population in these cities suffered a lot. Many died in that moment. Others developed cancer and other diseases.

Others say that this picture was taken during the Vietnam War, when the American army burnt down villages and forests using Napalm, a kind of gasoline.

It doesn't matter actually where the photo was taken. It shows how brutal, frightening and devastating war is, no matter where, no matter when it happens.