AUGUST 6 -- FROM HIROSHIMA TO HOPE

>Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2002
>To: abolition-caucus@egroups.com, INESnet@fy.chalmers.se, "MPI ISC":;
>From: David Krieger <dkrieger@napf.org>
>Subject: FROM HIROSHIMA TO HOPE
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>FROM HIROSHIMA TO HOPE
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>"I will write peace on your wings, and you will fly all over the world."
> -- Sadako Sasaki
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> August 6th. Hiroshima Day. A time for reflection, for
>listening to the sounds of birds and water, the rustling leaves, for
>remembering who we are.
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>We remember Hiroshima not for the past, but for the future. We
>remember Hiroshima so that its past will not become our future.
>Hiroshima is best remembered with the plaintiff sounds of the bamboo
>flute, the Shakuhachi. It conjures up the devastation, the
>destruction, the encompassing emptiness of that day. The Shakuhachi
>reveals the tear in the fabric of humanity that was ripped opened by
>the bomb. Through that tear we could all be sucked as into a black
>hole in the universe of decency.
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>Nuclear weapons are not weapons at all. They are a symbol of an
>imploding human spirit. They are a fire that consumes the crisp air
>of decency. They are a crossroads where science joined hands with
>evil and apathy. They are a triumph of academic certainty wrapped
>in the arrogance and convoluted lies of deterrence. They are
>Einstein's regret. They are many things, but not weapons -- not
>instruments of war, but of genocide and perhaps of omnicide.
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>Those who gather to retell and listen to the story of Hiroshima and
>of Sadako are a community, a community committed to a human future.
>We may not know one another, but we are a community. And we are
>part of a greater community gathered throughout the world to
>commemorate this day, seeking to turn Hiroshima to Hope.
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>If we succeed, the child Sadako of a thousand cranes, who would have
>been an older woman now, will be remembered by new generations. She
>will be remembered long after the names and spirits of those who
>made and used and celebrated the bomb will have faded into the
>haunting sounds of the Shakuhachi.
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> David Krieger
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>"Peace is the only battle worth waging."
> --- Albert Camus
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>To become a free on-line participating member of the Nuclear Age
>Peace Foundation,
>click here: https://www.ndic.com/wagingpeace/mbrshp.html.
>____________________________________
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>David Krieger, President
>Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
>PMB 121, 1187 Coast Village Road, Suite 1
>Santa Barbara, CA 93108-2794
>dkrieger@napf.org
>Web site: www.wagingpeace.org
> www.nuclearfiles.org
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