Remembering Nagasaki

[beam me up scottie]

Warning: graphic images















http://www.exploratorium.edu/nagasaki/mainn.html

[Anarcho-Socialist]

1. Heartbreaking

[Massacure]

2. Nobody wins in war.

I'm going to nominate this thread.

[beam me up scottie]

3. Thanks.

The look on the mother's face as she feeds her baby...

[Big Kahuna]

4. A local artist...

"Nuclear Madonna"

http://www.janesmithbernhardt.com/hibakusha_project.html

[beam me up scottie]

5. oh.

There are no words.

Thank you for posting this.

[beam me up scottie]

6. It takes a courageous woman to start a project like this.

It must have been overwhelming.
But her work is haunting and unforgettable.

The Hibakusha Peace Project is an opportunity to reflect on the memory of Hiroshima with the hope of transformation. It is a series of collage portraits of A-Bomb survivors by Jane Smith Bernhardt, accompanied by their stories and poems.

THE FIRST AID STATION - Fragment

The woman, fearing a
shock might come
upon me due to my
monster-like
changed features,
would not let me
have a mirror.

Unable to go through
the streets too hot
from embers
after blazing,
I crossed over an
iron-bridge,
feeling uneasiness at
every cross-tie
smoldering.

Following advice on
how to reach the
first-aid station,
which, in reality,
is a bank-building,
I just caught sight of
numberless corpses
behind the pillars.

Bewildered to stand
in front of my
house-site,
I found nothing
reminding me of the
house which I left
only this morning.

Auntie is said to have
died vomiting a black
sort of foam,
after just a few days.
She had come to see
me of my suffering
from a burn.

In desperation of
self-scorn and
self-abandonment
I have been doing
nothing but to wait for
the nearing death,
watching the burning
of the corpses on the
river beach almost
everyday.


We must always remember.