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Anniversary: Action
OMNI’S
2013 REMEMBRANCE of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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Sixty-Eight
Years Since Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Today is the 68th anniversary of the first use of a
nuclear weapon. Tens of thousands of people in
We hope that you will remember
on August 6 and also take action to work for peace. It’s important that your
members of Congress hear—now—that you want to keep this kind of destruction
from happening again. Urge them to support the
administration’s proposal to reduce the number of nuclear weapons that the U.S.
has ready to launch. As
our lobbyist David Culp notes, August could be a critical time for nuclear
disarmament. [August is
Nuclear Free Future Month; see OMNI’s Newsletter, and OMNI’s Nuclear Abolition
Day Newsletter, June 2. –Dick]
Other ways to support nuclear
disarmament on this anniversary:
- Write a letter to the editor in response to news coverage of
the
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OMNI’S REMEMBRANCE OF HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI, AUGUST 11, 2013, Over 40
Years of Witnessing.
This year at Walker Park, S. College, Outdoor Pavilion south of Senior Center
MC: Kelly Mulhollan
Music by Kelly and Warren Dietzel
Poetry by Gerry Sloan, Leah Gould, and Vela
Commentary by Lioneld Jordan, Fernando Garcia, Dick Bennett, and Gladys
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Hiroshima
August 06, 2013
We greet the morning of the 68th return of “that day.” At 8:15
a.m., August 6, 1945, a single atomic bomb erased an entire family. “The baby
boy was safely born. Just as the family was celebrating, the atomic bomb
exploded. Showing no mercy, it took all that joy and hope along with the new
life.”
A little boy managed somehow to survive, but the atomic bomb
took his entire family. This A-bomb orphan lived through hardship, isolation,
and illness, but was never able to have a family of his own. Today, he is a
lonely old hibakusha. “I have never once been glad I survived,” he says,
looking back. After all these years of terrible suffering, the deep hurt
remains.
A woman who experienced the bombing at the age of 8 months
suffered discrimination and prejudice. She did manage to marry, but a month
later, her mother-in-law, who had been so kind at first, learned about her
A-bomb survivor’s handbook. “‘You’re a hibakusha,’ she said, ‘We don’t need a
bombed bride. Get out now.’ And with that, I was divorced.” At times, the fear
of radiation elicited ugliness and cruelty. Groundless rumors caused many
survivors to suffer in marriage, employment, childbirth—at every stage of life.
Indiscriminately stealing the lives of innocent people,
permanently altering the lives of survivors, and stalking their minds and
bodies to the end of their days, the atomic bomb is the ultimate inhumane
weapon and an absolute evil. The hibakusha, who know the hell of an atomic
bombing, have continuously fought that evil.
Under harsh, painful circumstances, the hibakusha have struggled
with anger, hatred, grief and other agonizing emotions. Suffering with
aftereffects, over and over they cried, “I want to be healthy. Can’t I just
lead a normal life?” But precisely because they had suffered such tragedy
themselves, they came to believe that no one else “should ever have to
experience this cruelty.” A man who was 14 at the time of the bombing pleads,
“If the people of the world could just share love for the Earth and love for
all people, an end to war would be more than a dream.”
Even as their average age surpasses 78, the hibakusha continue
to communicate their longing for peace. They still hope the people of the world
will come to share that longing and choose the right path. In response to this
desire of the many hibakusha who have transcended such terrible pain and
sorrow, the rest of us must become the force that drives the struggle to
abolish nuclear weapons.
To that end, the city of Hiroshima
Policymakers of the world, how long will you remain imprisoned
by distrust and animosity? Do you honestly believe you can continue to maintain
national security by rattling your sabers? Please come to Hiroshima Hiroshima North Korea
in a Northeast Asia nuclear-weapon-free zone.
Today, a growing group of countries is focusing on the
humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons and calling for abolition.
President Obama has demonstrated his commitment to nuclear disarmament by
inviting Russia India Hiroshima Hiroshima , we hope Japan Japan
This summer, eastern Japan Hiroshima
Recalling once again the trials of our predecessors through
these 68 years, we offer heartfelt consolation to the souls of the atomic bomb
victims by pledging to do everything in our power to eliminate the absolute
evil of nuclear weapons and achieve a peaceful world.
Kazumi Matsui
Mayor
The City of Hiroshima
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