[ RadSafe ] Re: On this day - moment of silence

[howard long]

Painful prevention is hard to appreciate. Did you hear about the child in the hospital for chemotherapy who asked, "Mama, why do people come in looking well and go out looking sick?" 
   
  I have specialized in preventive examinations for many years. It takes great empathy to help people eat less, stop smoking, take daily insulin shots or faithfully do other unpleasant things. Surveillance of terrorists who may be plotting to sarin, anthrax or nuc. your city is also subject to shortsighted wishful thinking. 
   
  Leaders not foresighted, not using atom bombs to discourage horrendous resistance (the Japanese were ready for 100+ Iwo Jimas), or not pre-empting attacks on US cities as announced by fanatic al Qaeda (by keeping it busy in its "Central Front",  Iraq), would be condemned by history. It is for the wisdom of our leaders we should pray - and give thanks.
   
  Howard Long MD

ncwelliver at aol.com wrote:
  I appreciate everyone's contributions to this topic.? I'm not sure, however, that this argument (was dropping the atom bomb on Japan justifiable, complex, etc.) will ever be solved by logic.? I appreciate the warriors that keep me and my family and my country safe.? I also think that the only way to break the cycle of violence and war is to stop justifying or denigrating what happened and just grieve.? As long as we stay "stuck" in logic about why this happened and who did what to whom, there is no resolution.? If we allow ourselves to really look at the photos of war, any war, including the photos of Nagasaki taken in August, 1945, and feel the heart-wrenching grief that these images evoke, there is hope that we will decide that we no longer wish to continue to do such things.

Perhaps that is what the moment of silence is intended to evoke.

Nancy Welliver
Hanford Nuclear Site



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