What's up with Yahoo? Are they chicken?

[MrScorpio]

The Discussion function was turned off on this story. If any subject needed a discussion, it would be this one:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050716/ap_on_re_us/hiroshima_survivor

Hiroshima Survivor Recalls Devastation
By HEATHER CLARK, Associated Press Writer Sat Jul 16, 6:21 PM ET

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Shigeko Sasamori hopes her scarred body and gnarled fingers put a human face on the suffering caused by the creation of the atomic bomb, a weapon that was first tested 60 years ago in the New Mexico desert.

The 73-year-old woman was a schoolgirl on Aug. 6, 1945, when an American warplane dropped over Hiroshima the first of two nuclear bombs used against Japan.

She traveled to New Mexico this past week for the 60th anniversary of the atomic tests at Trinity to ask scientists to stop nuclear warfare.

"I want to talk to their hearts and beg them not to do it," she said Friday.

When the bomb exploded, Sasamori said she and a friend were preparing to join a work crew to clear a city street less than a mile from ground zero. Her 13-year-old companion was killed in the blast.

"I saw that everybody looked so terrible, just like they came from hell," she said. "No one was talking. No one was screaming."

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Sasamori, who now lives in Marina del Rey, Calif., said she is not angry with Americans for how World War II ended, but hates war itself and is saddened by the actions of those who made the bomb.

But she was upset about a $125-per-ticket event at the National Atomic Museum in Albuquerque on Friday.

Participants were given a secret identity at the door of the museum, a gimmick meant to recall the top-secret project to develop the bomb. Guests were treated to food, a cash bar, a 1940s fashion show, slides of the Trinity test and a panel discussion by historians and test participants. On Saturday, they were taken to the test site in southern New Mexico for a tour.

"Many people are dead. Those people's souls aren't happy. Why are you celebrating?" Sasamori said. "You are making a weapon to kill us. So, I feel that's not appropriate to celebrate."

A museum spokeswoman did not return a voice mail message, and no one answered several phone calls to the museum.

On Aug. 6, Sasamori said she will mark the 60th anniversary of the attack on Hiroshima with a more subdued ceremony: a moment of silence in her hometown to remember the dead.

The lady has a valid point. She has earned a right to have her question answered.

I can see the reason why people who ran this "celebration" are running away from her; they're a bunch of chicken shits.

I was looking for a lively discussion, so I could "reason" with the inevitable idiot who would come on to attempt to defend this "celebration".

But YAHOO chickened out.

This looks like an act of cowardice to me.

[ghostsofgiants]

1. That's fucked up

[Tallison]

2. Pretty craven.

I wonder the nature of the responses' majority should Yahoo have enabled a discussion.