<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px"><div><span></span></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464889778134_4237" dir="ltr">My friend Peggy Aylsworth of Santa Monica, CA, whom I have known for over 50 years since I became friends with her son in what used to be called junior high school, still writes and disseminates a weekly poem at age 95.</div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464889778134_4236" dir="ltr"><br></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464889778134_4186" dir="ltr">DG<br><br></div> <div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464889778134_3653" style="display: block;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464889778134_3652" style="font-family: garamond, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464889778134_3651" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464889778134_4239" dir="ltr"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464889778134_4238" face="Arial" size="2"> On Thursday, June 2, 2016 12:27 PM, Peggy AYLSWORTH <peggy.aylsworth@gmail.com> wrote:<br></font></div> <blockquote id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464889778134_3650" style="padding-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; margin-left: 5px; border-left-color: rgb(16, 16, 255); border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid;"> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464889778134_3669"><div id="yiv0461948562"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464889778134_3668" dir="ltr"><div class="yiv0461948562gmail_default" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464889778134_4193" style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
Dears...</font></div><div class="yiv0461948562gmail_default" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464889778134_4184" style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><br></div><div class="yiv0461948562gmail_default" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464889778134_4195" style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464889778134_4194" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">Perhaps you read the story a few days ago about the Japanese man, a Hiroshima survivor,</font></div><div class="yiv0461948562gmail_default" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464889778134_3678" style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464889778134_3677" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">who spent every weekend for 20 years looking in U.S. phone books to locate the families</font></div><div class="yiv0461948562gmail_default" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464889778134_3667" style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464889778134_3666" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">of the 12 American POWs who died when the A bomb was dropped. This poem is meant</font></div><div class="yiv0461948562gmail_default" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464889778134_4185" style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">to commemorate this exemplary man..</font></div><div class="yiv0461948562gmail_default" style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><br></div><div class="yiv0461948562gmail_default" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464889778134_4196" style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">Love...</font></div><div class="yiv0461948562gmail_default" style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">Peggy
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<span> </span>imprisoned<br>
<span> </span><span> </span>victims</font></div><div class="yiv0461948562gmail_default" style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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country’s<br>
<span> </span>detonation</font></font></font></div><div class="yiv0461948562gmail_default" style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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<span> </span>a native<span> </span><br>
<span>
</span>a survivor<br>
chose<br>
<span> </span>compassion’s<br>
<span> </span><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464889778134_4253"> </span>chore<br>
<span> </span>to locate<br>
<span> </span>over 20
years</font></font></font></div><div class="yiv0461948562gmail_default" style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</span>families<br>
of the enemy<br>
<span> </span>whose sons<br>
<span>
</span><span> </span></font></font></font></div><div class="yiv0461948562gmail_default" style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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the Bomb</font></font></font></div><div class="yiv0461948562gmail_default" style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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