For the very first time, the US ambas sador to Japan has been ordered to attend the annual ceremony at Hiro shima commemorating those who died when the Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb there 65 years ago.
A State Department spokesman was quick to say the ambassador wouldn't be offering an official apology for dropping the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki that ended World War II. But he didn't have to. The simple presence of a US official at this ceremony was a powerful symbolic act, even if no one actually said "We're sorry."
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