[Peace] Remember Nuclear Disarmament!

[Matt Reichel]

Just a quick plug:
A new, touching memoir of a Hiroshima survivor is now available for 
purchase:
Hideko Tamura Snider's "One Sunny Day,"  with a foreward written by the 
timeless Studs Terkel.

Can be ordered at: 
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0812693272/qid=1081960297/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/104-6703863-2440738?v=glance&s=books&n=507846


I had the honor of talking on a panel with Hideko this past weekend in 
CHicago during the Annual Student Peace Action Network conference. Her talk 
was so moving that there are not quite sufficient words to describe it. She 
had many members of the audience in tears.

While she has spoken from time to time in front of crowds about her memories 
since the mid-80's when the Freeze campaign approached her, she has only 
recently begun to share this memory without becoming ill: the physical 
impact of post traumatic stress disorder even 50 years on. She wrote the 
book secretly hoping that people would read it, and thus not need her for 
speaking engagements anymore.
But she definitely wants this story spread far and wide, as a reminder of 
one of the great human tragedies of all time:  that some of the best minds 
in the world would converge for the sole purpose of creating the world's 
most destructive weapon. That the human mind: something that is capable of 
creating such wonderful advancements in human society, should be used for 
the most destructive end.
We must continue to take whatever baby steps we can towards the full 
abolition of nuclear weapons.

cheers,
matt

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