Thank you for publishing Bob Tweedie’s letter regarding the 63rd anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bombs ending the war with Japan.

It was good to read that someone else remembers that war and reminds us of how it really was.

I graduated from Bloomfield High School in New Jersey in January 1942 about a month after Pearl Harbor.

Most of the boys in my class, the neighborhood boys, and my cousins enlisted in the service, so I gradually ended up writing to about 30 of them, acting as a sort of newspaper, passing on their news when I received letters.

This continued until the dropping of the atomic bombs ended it all and saved thousands.

I’ll never forget Pearl Harbor and visiting the Arizona brought it all back.

Dorothy Herblotz

Franklin