Message From Hiroshima

[rumpel]

The US media does not seem to be interested in broadcasting or addressing the issues of Nuclear Weapons at all...
Out of sight out of mind?

In 1945, Hiroshima was devastated by an atomic bomb. Over 100 thousand lives were lost, and those who managed to survive were forced to live with painful aftereffects. And yet, transcending unbearable sorrow and pain, the people of Hiroshima rose up from the rubble and, with generous assistance from around Japan and around the world, worked hard to build “peace city.” Based on its A-bomb experience of sixty years ago, it continues to appeal for the abolition of nuclear weapons and realization of genuine and lasting world peace.

Despite Hiroshima's best efforts, however, many places around the world are still bound in chains of violence, hatred, and retaliation. Our planet still bristles with vast arsenals of nuclear weapons, and the danger that one of these weapons will be used is actually increasing.

If we are to save the human family from this danger and survive through the 21st century, we must, above all, listen to the message of the hibakusha. They have rejected the path of revenge and have pointed us toward the path of reconciliation, which severs the chains of violence and hatred. We must properly understand the hibakusha experience and make of it a collective human memory.

more
http://www.nhk.or.jp/peace/english/mayor/hiroshima.html
http://www.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/peace/

and many further links

TrueMajority:

In honor of Hiroshima Day, we'd like to take a minute to reflect on just how absurd it is for America to maintain 10,000 nuclear bombs. Defense experts say that many simply aren't needed, and by reducing the nuclear arsenal our country could save $14 billion dollars -- more than enough to save the lives of six million kids who die of starvation in impoverished nations each year.

http://www.truemajorityaction.org/postcard/

just a reminder from our collective past..

[Donnachaidh]

1. There is a documentary cycling on HBO right now called

"White Light, Black Rain" which documents the bombing and the aftermath. They interview several of the survivors and it shows in film and in regular photos what some of these people lived through. It's chilling to watch.

I'd love to force some of these nuke nutters to sit in a room and WATCH this. If only to get them to see the horrors those survivors went through, and the way they've been ostracized because they survived. And then I'd ask them what THEY would do if their own children were burned beyond recognition, and ALIVE?

This is a must see for anyone not familiar with the aftermath of the bomb. It's gut-wrenching.

[rumpel]

3. good,

thanks I'll check it out.

[Xenotime]

2. It was dem who dropped it too....

We have gone from being the only political party to strike another country with a nuclear weapon not once but twice to a party working for peace. Too bad the pugs want to play catch up.

[rumpel]

4. the only problem is

that the dems are dancing to the fear mongering tune vis a vis homeland security.

I wonder how many of the dems would support a total ban on nukes...