There are certain events in your life that once you are exposed to them, you're never the same.
I experienced that on the 40th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
-END TO WAR NOW
I experienced that on the 40th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
I
was an 18 year old kid. I, like countless other kids my age, had been
tramautized by "Threads" and "The Day After." We constantly looked up in
the sky, searching for conspicuous vapor trails.
This was an age of terror.
I was convinced that I would not see my 19th birthday.
Yet, the one thing that terrified me, and yet gave me hope, was not these well-made television docudramas, but rather a Japanese animated short depitcting the atomic attack on Hiroshima.
It is very powerful stuff.
The images are very stylized, but very graphic. There is charred, melting flesh everywhere. The suffering is of mammoth proportions.
But, there is hope. The shorts starts, and ends with a little boy throwing a paper airplane. The first time, it is in old Hiroshima. The second, it is in a re-built, modern Hiroshima.
The film has lived in my mind for all these years. I had googled it recently, and to my surprise, it was there.
It's every bit as powerful to a 43 year-old father as it was to an 18 year-old boy.
WARNING:
The scenes depicted are very graphic.
This is not recommended for young or sensitive viewers.
This was an age of terror.
I was convinced that I would not see my 19th birthday.
Yet, the one thing that terrified me, and yet gave me hope, was not these well-made television docudramas, but rather a Japanese animated short depitcting the atomic attack on Hiroshima.
It is very powerful stuff.
The images are very stylized, but very graphic. There is charred, melting flesh everywhere. The suffering is of mammoth proportions.
But, there is hope. The shorts starts, and ends with a little boy throwing a paper airplane. The first time, it is in old Hiroshima. The second, it is in a re-built, modern Hiroshima.
The film has lived in my mind for all these years. I had googled it recently, and to my surprise, it was there.
It's every bit as powerful to a 43 year-old father as it was to an 18 year-old boy.
WARNING:
The scenes depicted are very graphic.
This is not recommended for young or sensitive viewers.