03559nam 2200649 a 450 991080982170332120230721004213.097866117937221-281-79372-80-87586-562-3(CKB)1000000000691266(EBL)362225(OCoLC)437224757(SSID)ssj0000139345(PQKBManifestationID)11132211(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000139345(PQKBWorkID)10011779(PQKB)10624182(SSID)ssj0000358906(PQKBManifestationID)12132098(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000358906(PQKBWorkID)10383299(PQKB)11684532(MiAaPQ)EBC362225(Au-PeEL)EBL362225(CaPaEBR)ebr10476811(CaONFJC)MIL179372(EXLCZ)99100000000069126620071221d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrA dimly burning wick memoir from the ruins of Hiroshima /by Sadako Teiko Okuda ; with Pamela Bea Wilson Vergun ; with contributions by Ronald Takaki ... [et al.] ; illustrated by Mia NoltingNew York Algora Pub.20081 online resource (202 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-87586-561-5 0-87586-560-7 Includes bibliographical references.Foreword; Message from the Author upon the Publication of Her Book in English; In the Beginning; If There Had Been No War...; The Big Brother and Little Sister Who Waited; Where Has Yuuichi Gone?; Masako-chan, Who Couldn't See; The Boy Who Went Beddy-Bye with His Mommy; My Mother Wears Glasses Too; Best Friends Forever; Insanity and Greed; What Purpose Do Children Serve?; Waiting at the Foot of the Bridge; Bring Yuri-chan Too; As Long as the War Ends, It's All Right If We Lose; Even Now the Memories of That Time; Restoring Faith; But They Said They'd Only Be Gone One NightThe Spirits That Haunt Us AllThe Years Before and After the Bombing; Remarks by a Nobel Peace Prize Nominee; Sadako's Experience and the Insights of Historical Research and Social Psychology; Remembering Hiroshima; A Lesson from Hiroshima; A Brief Summary of the Medical Impacts of Hiroshima; Understanding Hiroshima - Personal and Policy Lessons to Take into the Future; AcknowledgementsAs the United States debates launching another war in the Middle East, this passionate diary paired with a pondered discussion provides a reality check on how governments goad citizens into going to war and gives a forthright look at the hideous results for civilian casualties. Who bears the responsibility for decisions made in a "democracy" when our leaders or the media exaggerate the threat and downplay the harm our actions will cause?. In this agonizing diary, a survivor of the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima relates the horror of searching through smoldering rubble for signs of her familyAtomic bomb victimsJapanHiroshima-shiHiroshima-shi (Japan)HistoryBombardment, 1945Personal narrativesAtomic bomb victims940.54/2521954092BOkuda Sadako1705602MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910809821703321A dimly burning wick4092452UNINA