I wasn't alive when this bombing happened, but I've spent my life regretting it. All the arguments about how many soldiers were saved can't mitigate the fact that the U.S. is the only country to use an atomic weapon on another country. 200,000 people died in Nagasaki. They are marking the anniversary, a sad, sad anniversary.
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An Elder tells a story of something that happened faitly recently. He went to Japan for World Peace and Prayer Day which is held on the Summer Solstice each year in a different part of the world. He was in Japan for this event in 2004.
He carried water from Coldwater Spring. A natural occurring spring near Fort Snelling, a non-natural occurring fort where two great rivers meet. A Japanese man had an eternal flame that had been buring since Nagasaki was bombed.
The Elder extinguished this flame with the sacred water and life blood of Mother Earth, symbolizing peace, at least for that moment.
I want to think there is hope, at least a little.
I was in Nagasaki for the 60th anniversary and in the Atomic Bomb museum there is a letter to W (and I think other world leaders) talking about the immense devestations of war and basically pleading with him to stop and think about what the heck he's doing.
It's so sad.
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