Post by Fusioner on Aug 5, 2005 18:13:42 GMT -5
Ok... They do this every year, with bigger coverage every ten years... The 50th aniversity was probably the biggest concentrated coverage on this historical event since it happened.
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8837468/
Hiroshima's complex legacy re-examined
Tens of thousands expected at memorial on 60th anniversary of bombing
HIROSHIMA, Japan - On Saturday morning, 60 years to the minute after the apocalypse, tens of thousands of people will be packed into Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. Wreaths will be laid and 1,000 doves set free. Temple bells will ring.
For Yoriko Takeuchi, 87, this is always a hard time of year. On Aug. 6, 1945, she lost just about everything.
As laughing children hang strings of paper cranes, and TV crews stake out their positions for the main event, Takeuchi sits on a shady curb, her rake at her side. She and her volunteer cleaning crew have almost finished their six-hour shift sweeping up the park, and now she is taking a moment to reflect.
A Hiroshima native, she had been evacuated with many other women and children before the atomic bomb fell on her city. When she returned in December 1945, she found that she had lost her home, many of her relatives, just about everything.
All I could see was just a flat, smoldering field, she recalled.
Hiroshima today is a thriving city of nearly 3 million, probably best known in Japan for the Carp, its baseball team.
It's a miracle how the city has recovered, said Takeuchi.
She believes Hiroshima's message is a simple one.
We went through hell because of atomic weapons, she said. No one else should ever have to. They should all be banned.
Graphics Info in PDF format:
msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/Interactives/News/History/Hiroshima_anniversary.PDF
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8837468/
Hiroshima's complex legacy re-examined
Tens of thousands expected at memorial on 60th anniversary of bombing
HIROSHIMA, Japan - On Saturday morning, 60 years to the minute after the apocalypse, tens of thousands of people will be packed into Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. Wreaths will be laid and 1,000 doves set free. Temple bells will ring.
For Yoriko Takeuchi, 87, this is always a hard time of year. On Aug. 6, 1945, she lost just about everything.
As laughing children hang strings of paper cranes, and TV crews stake out their positions for the main event, Takeuchi sits on a shady curb, her rake at her side. She and her volunteer cleaning crew have almost finished their six-hour shift sweeping up the park, and now she is taking a moment to reflect.
A Hiroshima native, she had been evacuated with many other women and children before the atomic bomb fell on her city. When she returned in December 1945, she found that she had lost her home, many of her relatives, just about everything.
All I could see was just a flat, smoldering field, she recalled.
Hiroshima today is a thriving city of nearly 3 million, probably best known in Japan for the Carp, its baseball team.
It's a miracle how the city has recovered, said Takeuchi.
She believes Hiroshima's message is a simple one.
We went through hell because of atomic weapons, she said. No one else should ever have to. They should all be banned.
Graphics Info in PDF format:
msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/Interactives/News/History/Hiroshima_anniversary.PDF
