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Chalk outlines of bodies to mark Hiroshima bomb blast
http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/local/neighborhoods-city/chalk-outlines-of-bodies-to-mark-hiroshima-bomb-blast-647019/
Chalk outlines of bodies to mark Hiroshima bomb blast
August 1, 2012
By Rob Wennemer / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
There was nothing small about "Little Boy," the atomic bomb that immediately killed 80,000 people upon explosion in Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 6, 1945.
Appalling images include flesh seared to the bone and faces without eyes, ears or a nose. But perhaps the worst sights of all were of nothing -- shadows burned into the ground or onto buildings where people doing everyday things were disintegrated by the bomb's immense heat.
Remembering Hiroshima, Imagining Peace will harness the power of these silhouettes Sunday and Monday on the 67th anniversary of the bombing. On those days, the alliance's Shadow Project encourages people to trace chalk outlines of each other around Pittsburgh to memorialize Hiroshima victims and illustrate the horrors of nuclear war.
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Images and videos of the chalk outlines will be displayed at a free closing ceremony Monday from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Shadow Lounge in East Liberty, after one last session of tracing from 6:30 to 7 p.m. outside. For more information or to send in pictures and videos of your own chalk outlines for the presentation, email shadowprojectpgh@gmail.com or visit http://rememberinghiroshima.wordpress.com.
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The intense heat from the atomic bomb that fell on Hiroshima, Japan on Aug. 6, 1945, left shadows of people and objects that were disintegrated.
Chalk outlines of bodies to mark Hiroshima bomb blast
August 1, 2012
By Rob Wennemer / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
There was nothing small about "Little Boy," the atomic bomb that immediately killed 80,000 people upon explosion in Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 6, 1945.
Appalling images include flesh seared to the bone and faces without eyes, ears or a nose. But perhaps the worst sights of all were of nothing -- shadows burned into the ground or onto buildings where people doing everyday things were disintegrated by the bomb's immense heat.
Remembering Hiroshima, Imagining Peace will harness the power of these silhouettes Sunday and Monday on the 67th anniversary of the bombing. On those days, the alliance's Shadow Project encourages people to trace chalk outlines of each other around Pittsburgh to memorialize Hiroshima victims and illustrate the horrors of nuclear war.
<snip>
Images and videos of the chalk outlines will be displayed at a free closing ceremony Monday from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Shadow Lounge in East Liberty, after one last session of tracing from 6:30 to 7 p.m. outside. For more information or to send in pictures and videos of your own chalk outlines for the presentation, email shadowprojectpgh@gmail.com or visit http://rememberinghiroshima.wordpress.com.
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The intense heat from the atomic bomb that fell on Hiroshima, Japan on Aug. 6, 1945, left shadows of people and objects that were disintegrated.