HIROSHIMA 2025
Words fail us...
Image of Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, by Sailko, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.1
Atomic bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, on August 6th and 9th, respectively, before I was born.
I was spared from those horrors by fate— I was not on this earth. Yet, I am revulsed by the significance of mass instant incineration of human beings and the follow-on suffering from shock, psychological trauma, burns, radiation sickness and cancer.
The links below provide significant resources on the circumstances surrounding those abominable events at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They also provide a more eloquent narrative than I could ever offer, and ways to support the banning of these horrible weapons.
May we learn from the links and ban these weapons forever— weapons that only promise human and environmental destruction. May we make war at any level, with any weapons, unacceptable.
Links of interest:
Manuel, I am visiting my family in Pennsylvania and just two days ago we were watching PBS and they showed a movie called Atomic. People. One of the most horrifying gruesome, inhumane things I have ever seen.
For as long as I live, I will never forget it. Peace be with you Manuel
Human beings are capable of great kindness and courage; human beings have an unmatched capacity for violence and cruelty. Life is full of realities that are hard to accept and difficult to bear. Yet people do bear them.