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Donna - Thanks for remembering.... Let us pause in remembrance of the over 200,000 residents of Hiroshima killed in one blinding flash, thanks to the bullies on the block, and pity those who cannot face the truth that war is wrong and their role in it is also wrong!! In the face of bitter American Republicans and males who agree that bombing Japan was acceptable, the number of countries who have attended today's Memorial Service in Hiroshina has increased. In Hiroshima, Little Boy's huge fireball and explosion killed 70,000 to 80,000 people instantly. Another 70,000 were seriously injured. As Joseph Siracusa, author of Nuclear Weapons: A Very Short Introduction, writes: "In one terrible moment, 60% of Hiroshima… was destroyed. The blast temperature was estimated to reach over a million degrees Celsius, which ignited the surrounding air, forming a fireball some 840 feet [256 meters] in diameter."
Three days later, Fat Man exploded 561 meters above Nagasaki, with the force of 22,000 tons of TNT. 286,000 people lived in Nagasaki before the bomb was dropped; 74,000 of them were killed instantly and another 75,000 were seriously injured.
In addition to those who died immediately, or soon after the bombings, tens of thousands more would succumb to radiation sickness and other radiation-induced maladies in the months, and then years, that followed.
The horror of Hiroshima lives onKind of makes 9/11 look like children playing doesn't it? Never No More
"And death is welcome, and death comes - and death is a quiet step into a sweet clean midnight."
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Thanks, OA. I think every time we let this date go unnoticed, unremarked, makes it easier for it to happen again.
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"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."
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I had a bif consult with all my doctors and I start(finally) dialysis in 10 days.
milk and Girl Scout cookies ;-)
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Yes thank you for remembering. My daughter did her senior college paper on the artwork that was produced by survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The paintings comprising this exhibition are sober reminders of the reality of atomic warfare, created by people who actually lived through an atomic holocaust. The artworks came about in 1974, when a survivor presented a hand drawn picture to the office of Nippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK - Japan Broadcasting Corporation). That single drawing was broadcast on Japanese television and soon a flood of thousands of drawings by other hibakusha began to arrive at the offices of NHK. An exhibition of the collected paintings and drawings was mounted at the Peace Culture Center of Hiroshima in 1975, and since that time the artworks have been compiled into several books and traveling exhibitions. (only one of the links I can remember) It breaks your heart. Her paper was so good (if good is the right word) she was asked to present it at a convention. I agree. Never no more.
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Fixed link just type in a phrase and enjoy
Last edited by Schlack; 08/06/09 08:39 PM.
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."
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I'm having a problem with that link, Schlack.
Donna - I'm not sure I understand what you're talking about, so you sound pleased - therefore so am I; congratulations.
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Donna - I'm not sure I understand what you're talking about, so you sound pleased - therefore so am I; congratulations. Mellow, I think Scout has been drinking again is the whole problem. You know how she gets when she does that (hey Rick or Naomi, gimme a swinging on the chandelier one here...) . I think she meant to type big not bif...  I had a bif consult with all my doctors and I start(finally) dialysis in 10 days.
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Donna - Thanks for remembering....
Let us pause in remembrance of the over 200,000 residents of Hiroshima killed in one blinding flash Amen. I have had the opportunity to stand at ground zero (the one WE caused!) and tour the museum nearby. I was there on a day when schoolchildren were gathered in throngs around the park areas surrounding the site. It is difficult still to say which was more memorable: the awful realization of the horror that was visited on this city and its people by my countrymen (and I mean the politicans who ordered it, not the aircrew that delivered it); or the unbeliveable grace with which I, an obvious American in their midst, was treated as I toured the memorials. And in 3 days we have to remember that once was not enough: we had to show how big our stuff was a second time.
"The white men were as thick and numerous and aimless as grasshoppers, moving always in a hurry but never seeming to get to whatever place it was they were going to." Dee Brown
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Loganrbt - I was there as well and it was unforgettable - both in Nagasaki and in Hiroshima. I wish we had a museum like that here in the States; we need to be able to see the results.
I remember leaning on a very old stone bridge in Nagasaki, wondering what a Geiger counter would show in that stone, and wondering why I wasn't chased from the streets by angry stone-throwing citizens. I wanted to apologize to any and every old person I saw.
Reading about Japanese war crimes in China and South/Southeast Asia does not lessen the horror; there is enough "never again" to go around.
The barbarity of that time astonishes me. I hope we never see it or its like again - that goes for ours, for Japan's, and for Germany's.
Julia
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