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NUKING HIROSHIMA
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Bombing Dresden, nuking Hiroshima
We claimed the mantle we are prima
The body count kept rising
Results not so surprising
Deaths so much worse than emphysema
When we were quite younger a
When we were quite younger a cousin of mine from W.Va. used to have a favorite phrase for every political discussion: "just nuke 'em." Years later, a group of friends from OH had the same sentiment. We live in the 21st century these days but sometimes it hard to tell if the brutishness of our forebears have really been refined or redefined. Being "prima" is somehow now combined with being "donna." A moral quandary nonetheless. Stirring and sombre in the same breath.
here is poetry that doesn't always conform
galateus, arkayye, arqios,arquious, crypticbard, excalibard, wordweaver
a person saying "nuke them
a person saying "nuke them all" sadly does not realize that that cavalier attitude makes them no better than the people they wish to "nuke" and quite possibly worse than the person they wish to kill. War has been a human constant. If we're going to cite faith in God or faith in Jesus, maybe we should try to actually elevate ourselves and be better.
The writers Kurt Vonnegut and
The writers Kurt Vonnegut and Walter Miller, Jr., were both horribly haunted by bombings (Vonnegut witnessed Dresden; Miller bombed the ancient monastery at Monte Cassino which so traumatized him that he suicided in 1996). I am of two minds: the bombing of Hiroshima was terrible; yet, my father was to have been the third Marine in the first invasionary force that would have invaded the Japanese main island (the War Department believed they would all be slaughtered, so their death certificates had already been written by the Commander of the Nevada), had Truman not chosen the bombing as an alternative. Three days short of the expected invasion, the Nevada stopped dead in the water, came about, and headed away from Japan at full speed. So while Hiroshima was a horrific tragedy, the decision saved my father's life; and thirteen years later, he adopted me.
Starward
once in a war, each nation
once in a war, each nation will likely take steps to end the war quickly and hopefully minimize their own losses. The problem continues to be our willingness to resolve conflict and disagreement with war in the first place. An action that saves my life may very well cost another person their life. That's a great break for me but the value of either of our lives is equal. The tragedy and evil is in the constant impulse to go to war in the first place.
There is a prophecy and
There is a prophecy and promise that anyone that lives by the sword ⚔️ dies by the sword ⚔️ Hence peoples and nations that live by war shall by that *virtue* be decimated by war; which seems to be true of the ancient warring empires. It's kind of like the Bermuda Triangle of gratuitous violence. Just a thought really.
here is poetry that doesn't always conform
galateus, arkayye, arqios,arquious, crypticbard, excalibard, wordweaver
That is quite the dilemma
That is quite the dilemma there; and being of "two minds" is an apt description. Having just returned from a commu outreach at the earthquake slash tsunami devastated coast of Iwate, one of the local social workers who was born there asked us if we ever felt guilt at having survived while the others of their/our cohort didn't? We shared how in early 2011 we two had our devastating inland tsunami and widespread flooding in SE Queensland just a few months of theirs. Hard hitting stuff when such calamitous events strikes large segments of civilization. A very sobering poem George.
here is poetry that doesn't always conform
galateus, arkayye, arqios,arquious, crypticbard, excalibard, wordweaver