[Dialogue] WWII-trailer, Hiroshima, Bin Ladin

[Lawrence Philbrook]

On May 7, 2011 9:48 AM, "Don Hinkelman" <hinkel at sgu.ac.jp> wrote:

Hi Jay,

I watched this film and was touched. There are great and horrific events in
our history that need symbolic reflection, honoring, and closure.

My father was a non-combat WWII vet, and he talks about how his buddies
stayed up all night talking about the atomic bomb after it went off, and
what it meant for the future. He gave me a photo of the man from his
hometown who dropped that bomb on Hiroshima. He was a hero to many, but I
wonderied how he slept thinking about the 200,000 people he killed. In
Japan, the Hiroshima bombing is an annual pilgrimage in August. A US
ambassador attended for the first time in 2010. School children around the
country make strings of a 1000 origami cranes as a prayer for peace.

I watch the news and see Americans holding flags dancing in the streets
after the news of Bin Ladin's death.  Another sort of symbolic event. Go to
Aljazeera and read a poignant narrative on his life, or to the BBC for
another view. There are as many perspectives on an event as there are people
who experienced them. Somehow one or two narratives become dominant, and we
call that 'history'.

Don

Obituary:
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2011/05/20115251555423645.html

WWII remembering:

http://media.causes.com/1060527?p_id=175378540



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