LEADER 03619nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910454492203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786611793722 010 $a1-281-79372-8 010 $a0-87586-562-3 035 $a(CKB)1000000000691266 035 $a(EBL)362225 035 $a(OCoLC)437224757 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000139345 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11132211 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000139345 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10011779 035 $a(PQKB)10624182 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000358906 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12132098 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000358906 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10383299 035 $a(PQKB)11684532 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC362225 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL362225 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10476811 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL179372 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000691266 100 $a20071221d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA dimly burning wick$b[electronic resource] $ememoir from the ruins of Hiroshima /$fby Sadako Teiko Okuda ; with Pamela Bea Wilson Vergun ; with contributions by Ronald Takaki ... [et al.] ; illustrated by Mia Nolting 210 $aNew York $cAlgora Pub.$d2008 215 $a1 online resource (202 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-87586-561-5 311 $a0-87586-560-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aForeword; 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 Night 327 $aThe 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; Acknowledgements 330 $aAs 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 family 606 $aAtomic bomb victims$zJapan$zHiroshima-shi 607 $aHiroshima-shi (Japan)$xHistory$yBombardment, 1945$vPersonal narratives 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAtomic bomb victims 676 $a940.54/2521954092 676 $aB 700 $aOkuda$b Sadako$0885374 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454492203321 996 $aA dimly burning wick$91976824 997 $aUNINA