Today is the anniversary of the day on which the United States dropped a nuclear bomb on the civilians of Hiroshima, killing and maiming many thousands of fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, grandparents and children. Since that time, the Bomb has been a member of all our families, looming over our lives with the mysterious power to change our future in hideous ways. We can't go back to a prenuclear world, but for the sake of all our families, immediate and global, we must use our creativity to clean up our postnuclear act.
Today I'll remember the families of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and pray for the safe future of our human family.
(Family Feelings, Martha Vanceburg and Sylvia W. Silverman, 6 August)
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