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Action at the hummingbird feeder. (I wish you coul Action at the hummingbird feeder. (I wish you could hear the wings buzzing in this video.)
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Today is the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombin Today is the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Jean and I had the opportunity to visit the Hiroshima Peace Park and Museum several years ago. Stunning, shocking, and convincing that nuclear war should have no place in our future. Jean and I had a memorable personal experience in the Hiroshima Peace Museum. I was looking at a displayed watch broken in the explosion, when an elderly Japanese man approached and asked in broken English if I would read a typewritten manuscript he was carrying. It told the story of a young Japanese civil servant who had left his pregnant wife at home that morning and headed for work as usual, wearing a new watch. After the bombing, family members frantically searched the site of the now-destroyed office building, in hopes that somehow the young man had survived. They found only his broken watch, the very one I was viewing in the display case. It turned out that the elderly man who gave me the manuscript was the then-unborn baby of the young man who died wearing it. He was simply at the museum to share his personal story with visitors like us. Incidentally, we were intrigued that nothing negative was said or printed anywhere at the Hiroshima site about Americans dropping the bomb. The only cause mentioned anywhere was attributed to the militaristic prewar Japanese government. And of course the naming of the Peace Park and Peace Museum symbolizes how the country wants the attack remembered – as a cautionary tale, not in a vengeful way.
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