As the two girls went to their separate ways, my aunt described to my parents what she saw. Not knowing how long she was out, she and her classmate extracted themselves out of the dead bodies, and out to the city. The corpse of the students, teacher and the wall shielded her from the blast. Not knowing how long she was out, my aunt and a classmate crawled out of the classroom, after being buried under 48 dead students and one teacher on top of her and a classmate. So what did she see? When the bomb was dropped on Augat 8:15 a.m., my aunt, a high school student was in class, when all of a sudden, the wall of the classroom fell and acted like a lean-to. She prefaced what happened by saying: said if there was a Hell, she saw it in Hiroshima. So I sat down with my mother and asked what did our aunt experience? She sat me down and told me what happened. I received the facts but I never knew what my aunt experienced. Why? To show Stalin that we were a force not to reckon with.so eventually, Russia created the most powerful hydrogen bomb called Tsar Bomba 16 years later. | KYODO National / History Famed Hiroshima Panels bound for U.S. Gallery for the Hiroshima Panels in Higashimatsuyama, Saitama atomic bombings drawn by Iri and Toshi Maruki, at the Maruki Hidden History: American POWS Were Killed in HiroshimaĪmerican Prisoners of War,' one of 15 large folding-screen panels on the As I gathered more information on Hiroshima, I was even more disgusted when I read: I gathered information, seen videos on Hiroshima and even saw an anime on the bombing by the U.S. As I got much older and the dawn of the Internet became more open.without dial-up, I searched everything. I wondered why would a loving God allow his flock to kill innocent lives? I then became an angry atheist. As I got older and found out more information, I was getting mad. So at 19 years old, I was trying to find everything I could about what my aunt experienced. Hibakushas are genetically defective and if you were a hibakusha, you probably deserved this.karma?
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Because of this, she would be discriminated against.
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In Japan, my aunt would be called a hibakusha (被爆者) or bomb survivors. It really didn't phase me, because, I was kept in the dark.on purpose. Over the years when I asked, my mother would say her city was bombed by an atomic bomb. My aunt was a victim of the Manhattan Project. I asked: Sensei, what is the Manhattan Project? She told me and the song started to make sense. So I asked a friend in my journalism class and he said to ask my Asian American Studies professor. I wondered what Enola Gay was? Was Enola an anagram for Alone? Alone Gay? Was this an LGBT with an identity problem? I really didn't know.
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I was thinking, was this about war? I then read the lyrics: Imagine a man when it all began/The pilot of 'Enola Gay'/Flying out of the shockwave on that August day/All the powers that be, and the course of history/Would be changed forevermore. The intro was Neil's drumming and it had a military beat. Being a former pianist, I loved the intro and I played it on the piano. It was a happy tune, which evoked feelings inside of me now that I became a Rush fan. Big Money had a great beat and I banged my head to the beat, while Grand Design had a lively beat which I truly enjoyed.
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When I bought the Power Windows C.D., I heard: Again, more than just a song with complex time signature, it was the path to me being an atheist, a peace activist and finally, a Unitarian Universalist. Manhattan Project by Rush got me to think.
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More than just a talented rock band, 30 years ago, my life changed in a direction I never thought would happen. As the Rush concert came to a close at the Forum in Inglewood Ca., my life just turned another page.