60

No, not my age, yet. It's been 60 years since America dropped the bomb on Japan. A friend's mother once told me that the bomb suddenly made a random death a reality that people could see & feel. Sure there had been bombing in other wars, mustard gas, but nothing of the magnitude of an atom bomb. Hundreds of thousands of people died 60 years ago. & the randomness of nuclear fallout still strikes people, & not just people in Japan - check out the cancer rates in the west (see Terry Tempest Williams) & northern Wisconsin, where the government once paid farmers to feed their milk cows uncontaminated hay. A moment of silence is hardly too much to ask.