65th anniversary of the Bombing of Hiroshima

Here at dailyglassofoj, we often take the mickey out of various things. But there are some things that even we must be serious about. Yesterday, the 6th of August, was the 65th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, back in 1945. While that act remains controversial even today, it is indisputable that many tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of people continue to live with the consequences.

I was reading the paper, and chanced upon a mention of Sadako Sasaki, the famous leukemia victim who died in 1955, after attempting to fold a thousand paper cranes in the hope of being granted a wish. There is a human cost to all war, a cost that echoes through the eons.

I close with the inscription below Sadako's statue at the Children's Peace Monument in Hiroshima:

"This is our cry. This is our prayer. Peace on Earth."