Obama in Hiroshima on victims: ‘Their souls speak to us’

President Obama lays a wreath at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.

President Obama in Japan on Friday recalled the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima in August, 1945, as the day “death fell from the sky,” calling for a global reduction in nuclear stockpiles from the perch of his Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum podium, which he shared with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

Obama didn’t outright apologize for then-President Harry Truman’s decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki – a move many historians cite as a life-saving measure that actually sped the end of World War II. But as the first sitting president to visit Hiroshima, where 140,000 were killed during an Aug. 6 bombing that basically ushered in the nuclear age, Obama’s presence spoke volumes.

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“We stand here in the middle of this city and force ourselves to imagine the moment the bomb fell,” Obama said. “We listen to a silent cry … their souls speak to us.”

Obama also said the bombing of Hiroshima “demonstrated that mankind possessed the means to destroy itself,” Fox News reported.

And he waxed poetic: NBC News said Obama spoke of the day “death fell from the sky and the world was changed,” and a “wall of fire destroyed a city.”

He then spoke of the “shared responsibility to look directly into the eye of history and ask what we must do differently to cub such suffering again,” and added: “We are not bound by genetic code to repeat mistakes of the past. We can learn.”

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Obama, in the museum’s guest book, penned: “We have known the agony of war. Let us now find the courage, together, to spread peace, and pursue a world without nuclear weapons,” NBC News reported.

Obama, right before his speech, laid a wreath by the base of the arched monument at the memorial, closing his eyes and bowing his head for a time, Fox News reported.

Only former president Jimmy Carter has previously visited Hiroshima. But Carter toured the site in 1984, four years after leaving the White House.

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