WOO HOO! This calls for some fireworks!
Posted on 08/03/2003 8:58:14 AM PDT by pabianice
Saturday, August 2, 2003 -- A series of events throughout the region next week will mark the 58th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. Events will start at 8 a.m. Wednesday with a service at the Leveret (MA) Peace Pagoda.
That afternoon, a peace walk will start, continuing for four days, weaving together the week's events. On Wednesday, walkers will start at the Peace Pagoda at 3 p.m. and arrive at 5:30 p.m. at the Montague Grange, where a potluck dinner will welcome the walkers.
Those present are encouraged to share music, art and poetry. The evening will conclude with a candlelight vigil on the town common at 8 p.m.
Peace walkers will begin Thursday at 1 p.m. at Mount Sugarloaf in Sunderland and conclude at 5:30 p.m. at the Amherst Common. Again, a potluck will greet walkers.
On Friday, the walk will start at 1 p.m. from the Amherst Common and head toward Northampton.
In Northampton, people will gather at 11 a.m. for meditation and at noon for a world peace prayer ceremony on the lawn of the Unitarian Society of Northampton and Florence at 220 Main St.
Northampton Mayor Clare Higgins will read at 1 p.m. from the children's book 'Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes,' based on the true story of a Japanese girl who developed leukemia after the bombing of Hiroshima.
Children and adults will fold peace cranes throughout the day. Comerford will send the cranes, along with a letter that Higgins will write, to the current mayor of Hiroshima, Tadatoshi Akiba.
The cranes will be added to Hiroshima's Peace Park display of cranes that children from around the world have made, Comerford said.
At 4:30 p.m., walkers will leave from the Elwell Recreation Area on Damon Road and process to the Unitarian Society, arriving an hour later. A potluck will welcome them.
At 7:30 p.m., the group will walk from the Unitarian Society to Paradise Pond on the Smith College campus, where they will launch peace lanterns.
Comerford said the vigil at the pond will start as many people in Japan are waking up on Saturday, August 9, remembering the bombing of Nagasaki.
"Like we would wake up on Sept. 11, that's what they're going through," Comerford said. "For a brief moment we will share that grief with them."
Peace walkers will start Saturday's walk at 3 p.m. at Arise, 94 Rifle St., Springfield. A vigil on State Street will mark the end of the walk at 5:30 p.m., and the week's events will conclude at 6 p.m. with a panel discussion on weapons of mass destruction at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Center, 3 Rutland St., Springfield. After the discussion, Rokke will speak.
Comerford (who is this person, who is never identified in the story?) is either the biggest fool in New England, or a filthy skunk.
Or perhaps both.
Well, they're holding hands and singing kumbaya, did you expect more?
It was the afternoon of August 5, 1945. To a group of six hundred army officers assigned to the Hiroshima garrison, Professor Yoshitaka Mimura of Hiroshima Bunri University, a theoretical physicist, was explaining the scientific possibilities of new weapons which might reverse the tide of war. Japan had little Navy or Air Force left. Within months a massive invasion of the home islands seemed likely. “Could you tell us, sir”, a young lieutenant colonel asked, “what an atomic bomb is? Is there any possibility that the bomb will be deployed by the end of this war?”
Mimura chalked a rough sketch on the blackboard to illustrate the [nuclear] reactions required. Scientists at Tokyo University, he explained, have “theoretically penetrated” the secrets of nuclear fission. If they could apply their theories practically, an atomic bomb “could be smaller than a piece of caramel candy, but, if exploded five hundred meters above a populated city, it could destroy 200,000 lives.”
“When can we have that bomb?”
“Well, it is difficult to say”, Mimura answered, knowing nothing of any Japanese enterprise to apply fission theory to bomb-making. “But I can tell you this much: not before the end of this war.”
WOO HOO! This calls for some fireworks!
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JAPANESE MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS REVEALED
Tokyo, 31 August 1945 ...Stars and Stripes
Horrific details of atrocities carried out by Japanese doctors are emerging as Allied PoWs are released. Prisoners have been subjected to vivisection. Others have been used as human guinea-pigs and injected with acid, inoculated with fatal diseases, or frozen at minus six degrees Fahrenheit (-20 C).
Eight U.S. airman shot down after B-29 raids in May died in vivisection experiments carried out by Professor Fukujior at Kyushu University. One PoWs stomach was removed, and an artery cut to see how long it was before he died.
Many of the atrocities have been at Japan's top-secret bacteriological warfare unit 731 at Harblin, in Manchuria. Prisoners were inoculated with anthrax, typhoid and cholera to test germ potency. Others have been boiled or dehydrated to death. Experiments included prolonged exposure to X-rays and prisoners subjected to a pressure chamber where the blood was forced out of their skin as they died in agony.
PoWs fear that 731's commander, Shiro Ishii, will escape prosecution in return for turning over germ warfare data to the U.S. Two released U.S. doctors also revealed today how they were made to prepare lethal acid-based solutions for Japanese doctors to inject into U.S. PoWs at a Tokyo hospital.
This picture is tame by comparison.
What's the "weapons of mass destruction" discussion all about?
Crack kills?
Getting AID's from risky behavior?
Teen pregnancy?
No way......It'll be a Bush basher.
Let them stew in the swill of their own making.
Hail to the Enola Gay and her crew. 
I'll bet these clueless "peace walkers" never heard of the Bataan Death March and the Japanese death ships. What about the "grief" of the American and Philippino POW's? These leftist, hate-America peace walkers are despicable fools.
… conclude at 5:30 p.m. at the Amherst Common.: the Keep of the communist stronghold.
… On Friday, the walk will … head toward Northampton. : another communist stronghold.
… lawn of the Unitarian Society of Northampton and Florence : Unitarians are the socialists pretending to wear the garb of religion.
…Northampton Mayor Clare Higgins will read at 1 p.m. from the children's book 'Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes,' based on the true story of a Japanese girl who developed leukemia after the bombing of Hiroshima:
… Comerford will send the cranes, along with a letter that Higgins will write: Jo Comerford, Program Coordinator, 140 Pine St., Florence, MA 01062, Phone: 413-584-8975, Fax: 413-584-1801, Email: AFSC@crocker.com
… Unitarian Society to Paradise Pond on the Smith College campus.. : the commies march to the prep school of the National Organization of W(ife)o(f)men. [ editorial note, the etymology of women is derived from the wife of man. If the NAGS knew this, they would pass out.]
…94 Rifle St., Springfield. A vigil on State Street will mark the end of the walk at 5:30 p.m: The vigil ends at the Springfield Armory. This is now a National Historic Park site.
This whole action will be attended by left leaning belly button watchers. Not one thought will rise up out of this collective mass of lunatics that historically despots have routinely used the politics of the left and spirit of Allah to slaughter millions throughout the World.
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