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

[Peter Bossew]

Finally a humane voice.
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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.
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> Perhaps that is what the moment of silence is intended to evoke.
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> Nancy Welliver
> Hanford Nuclear Site
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