Date: Fri Aug 10 2007 - 14:58:02 PDT
Mike,
I could not agree more ... we, here is America, have a very short
memory....Perhaps, a Nations' memory maturation comes with age of culture of
the nation ! (... but that's another discussion thread..) Moreover, we
don't teach our kids 'what is outside'. We teach kids from only looking
inside - not looking from outside-in.
Me, being a Nuclear Physicist, I often sit back and think, how in the name
of self-defined-security, we destroy 'humanity".
It was just a coincidence, or an unconscious effort, that 2 days back on the
anniversary of A-Bomb drop, I was sorting through my 'old' photo album. This
photo (a snap of the photo is attached) popped out that reminded me of the
moment when I actually held this object in my hand that triggered stream of
emotions way back in August 1979....almost 30 years back (yes.. another old
fellow...)
Well, this object was collected by a team of Americans who went to
Hiroshima-and-Nagasaki after the a-BOM to observe its effects. In 1979,
when I was working at the Nuclear Radiation Center (NRC) at Washington State
University, this object was brought in to scan for radioactivity. I do not
recall which colleague brought this to the NRC but I took this photo. This
was a ceramic doll or something which still had intense heat burn marks on
forehead, chest and side due to Intense heat exposure... When I held the
object in my palm, I sensed as if Object is communicating and asking
'why'... and this photo brings back same emotions anytime when I see..
Perhaps touching an object that survived reminds of thousands of innocent
lost lives that have no choice...
Naeem
--- Naeem Hashmi Chief Research Officer Information Frameworks T: 603-552-5171 M: 603-661-6820 W: http://infoframeworks.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Cole" <lchcmike@gmail.com> To: "Kiyoshi AMANO2" <akiyoshi@aria.ocn.ne.jp> Cc: "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity" <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu> Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 11:56 AM Subject: Re: [xmca] Hiroshima Nagasaki > Good day, Amano-san, > > I am afraid we are discussing the memories of old people now, memories > that > appear to have been lost in the younger generation in the US. > >>From the following articles from Japanese English Language Newspapers, > it appears that the events are still alive in collecitve memory, but their > meaning > is perhaps more disputed. > > mike > > > http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/ed20070704a1.html > http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20070804a7.html > > > > On 8/10/07, Kiyoshi AMANO2 <akiyoshi@aria.ocn.ne.jp> wrote: >> >> Dear Mike! >> Thank you very much for your message on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. >> I transmitted your mail to the mailing lists of Japanese Psychologists >> Which I belong to. We Japanese wish rupture of all nuclear weapons. >> >> Kiyoshi Amano, Tokyo >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu] >> On Behalf Of Mike Cole >> Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 11:45 AM >> To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity >> Subject: [xmca] Hiroshima Nagasaki >> >> It appears that yet another form of amnesia has overtaken xlchc/xmca. >> No >> one has thought to remember, in >> public sorrow, the fact that the United States dropped atomic bombs on >> the >> Japanese cities of Hiroshima and >> Nasaki on Aug 6-9th of some year or other a long time ago..... probably >> too >> long a time ago to remember, so >> many more atrocities have occurred in the interim. >> >> My deepest apologies to my Japanese friends and colleagues for this >> desperate, atrocious acts. >> They were not the last, and certainly not the most recent mistakes >> taken by >> my government in the >> name of democracy and human decency. That such actions taken in my name >> have >> been matched in >> horrifying measure by other countries, for whatever reasons, does not >> lessen >> my responsibility, and the >> responsibility of all those who read this note. >> >> Hiroshima. Nagasaki. >> Those who forget are inviting such treatment on themselves, their >> children, >> and their grandchildren. >> >> In this context I am moved to repeat two messages I read a year ago at >> the >> internment camp in Manzenar, California, >> where thousands of Nisei Americans were interned: >> >> Benjamin Franklin: They that can give up essential liberties to obtain a >> little temporaray security deserve neither liberty nor safety" >> Tom Paine: (one of my founding fathers, at least): He that would make >> his >> own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he >> violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to >> himself. >> >> >> mike >> _______________________________________________ >> xmca mailing list >> xmca@weber.ucsd.edu >> http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > xmca mailing list > xmca@weber.ucsd.edu > http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca
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