HIROSHIMA-NAGASAKI

Ryukyu Kingdom, once a proud and cultivated kingdom, was taken-over by colonial control and became the place of the last battle in 1945. And the worst battle in world history with 500,000 people killed, heavy loss to native peoples, heavy rape, heavy suicide, heavy shame from defeat. 80% of all native culture and historic buildings destroyed.  Things happened quickly. In February "they" started looking for the atomic bomb test site. April-May-June was the battle of Okinawa. July 16, just two weeks later was the testing of "the gadjet" at the Desert called "Journada del Muerto," the Journey of Death Desert in New Mexico. Then it took only three weeks to ship the bomb to Tinian Island and fit it into the airplane, fly it from Tinian, and "drop it-off" over Hiroshima. A few days later the target for the second bomb was the christian church of St. Mary in Nagasaki. Very interesting: the plutonium for this "Fat-Man" bomb was mined in north Canada.

Also very interesting: this first bomb called "Little Boy" was not actually tested due to not enough fuel, but just four hours after the testing of "the gadjet," the cruiser Indianapolis left San Francisco. The code-name for the test was "Trinity," meaning Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva. Following the explosion, Director Robert Oppenheimer read from the Bhagavid Gita: "If the radiance of 1000 suns were to burst at once into the sky,  that would be like the splendour of the Almighty One. I am become death, the shatterer of worlds. The destroyer."

Asako and Maiya offered "A Bowl of Tea for Peace into the Four Directions." At Hiroshima.

And at the Nagasaki Peace Angel, Yuko, Pascal, and I offered the same. At the UNESCO Peace Garden. In Paris.

Writing this today is 66 years later; and already people want to forget, to not remember, to repeat. Do not want to feel implicated in any way. Do not mind the twisted usage of language and words like Journado del Muerto, Trinity, Bhagavad Gita, Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva, Indian-apolis, San Francisco, Christian church of St. Mary, the gadget.