Wolemba Jack Gilroy, Julayi 21, 2020
Ogasiti 6, 1945 adandipeza ndili mgalimoto ndi amalume anga, a Frank Pryal. Wofufuza za NYC, Amalume Frank adayendetsa m'misewu yodzaza ndi Manhattan kupita ku Central Park Zoo kuti akakomane ndi mnzake Joe. Anali malo osangalatsa ndi mabanja akusangalala ndi nyama. Joe, gorilla, adawona amalume a Frank akubwera ndipo adayamba kumenya pachifuwa pomwe timayandikira. Frank adatenga ndudu m'thumba lake lapa suti, ndikuyatsa, ndikumpatsa. Joe adatenga kukoka kwakanthawi ndikutiphulitsira utsi… ndikukumbukira ndikuseka kwambiri mpaka kudzagwada kuti ndisiye.
Amalume a Frank ndi ine sitimadziwa pa nthawiyo, koma tsiku lomwelo ku Hiroshima, ana aku Japan, makolo awo, ndipo, zowonadi, ziweto zawo, zidawotchedwa pamachitidwe oyipitsitsa kwambiri m'mbiri ya anthu, United States ikuukira anthu a Hiroshima ndi atomiki bomba.
Monga mwana wazaka 10 waku America yemwe amakonda nkhondo, kuwonongedwa kwa Hiroshima kunandisiya wopanda chifundo, kapena chisoni. Mofanana ndi anthu ena aku America, ndinali nditabadwa m'maganizo ndikukhulupirira kuti nkhondo ndi mbali ya chibadwa cha anthu ndikuti kupha sikulakwa. Ndimaganiza kuti sizabwino pomwe malipoti am'mbuyomu ochokera ku Europe akutiuza kuti athu blockbuster mabomba atha kuwononga nyumba zonse zaku Germany. Anthu omwe amakhala m'mizinda yomweyi sanandikhudze kwenikweni. Kupatula apo, "tinali" kupambana pankhondo.
Merriam Webster amatanthauzira kuwonongeka kwa "monga kuvulaza chinthu china osakhala chomwe mukufuna. Makamaka: kuvulala kwazachitetezo kunkhondo.
Purezidenti wa United States, Harry Truman, adati Hiroshima ndi mzinda wankhondo. Unali bodza lamkunkhuniza. Amadziwa kuti Hiroshima anali mzinda makamaka nzika zaku Japan zomwe sizimawopseze United States. M'malo mwake, kuwopsa kwa anthu wamba ku Hiroshima kuyenera kuti kunali Chizindikiro kupita ku Soviet Union yomwe ikukwera kuti United States imangoona nzika zongowonongera.
Nthano kuti kuphulika kwa atomiki kulepheretsa anthu masauzande ambiri kuti aphedwe ku America ndikungolimbikitsa kumene anthu ambiri aku America mpaka pano. Woweruza William Leahy, wamkulu wa asitikali aku US Pacific, adati "Ndikuganiza kuti kugwiritsa ntchito chida chankhanza ku Hiroshima ndi Nagasaki sikunatithandizire pomenya nkhondo ndi Japan. Anthu a ku Japan anali atagonjetsedwa kale ndipo anali okonzeka kugonja chifukwa chakuti nyanja inatchinga bwino. ” Potsirizira pake, mizinda makumi asanu ndi limodzi mphambu zisanu ya ku Japan inali phulusa. Zonse Dwight D. Eisenhower adati poyankhulana ndi Newsweek "Anthu aku Japan anali okonzeka kudzipereka ndipo sikunali koyenera kuwamenya ndi chinthu choyipachi."
Pa Khrisimasi 1991, mkazi wanga Helene, mlongo wake Mary, mwana wathu wamwamuna Mary Ellen ndi mwana wamwamuna Terry adagwirana manja mwakachetechete pamalo a Hiroshima pomwe gulu lachikhristu la bomba la US lidayatsa anthu masauzande masauzande ambiri aku Japan patsiku loopsali. Tinasinkhasinkhanso za chochitika china chowopsa. Patangodutsa masiku atatu, pa Ogasiti 9, 1945, woponya bomba wachiwiri waku America wokhala ndi Akhristu obatizidwa adagwiritsa ntchito Katolika Katolika ku Nagasaki monga zero zero kuti iphulitse bomba la plutonium likuwonongeratu Chikhristu chachikulu ku Asia.
Kodi ana aku America masiku ano adasokonezedweratu pankhani yankhondo? Kodi mliri wa Covid-19 ndi nthawi yabwino kuphunzitsira ana kufunika kwa abale ndi alongo onse padziko lapansi? Kodi mphindi ino ingalole kuti mibadwo yamtsogolo ituluke m'chiwerewere, chonyansa cha kuwonongeka kwa ndalama?
Chikumbutso cha chikumbutso cha 75th cha kutentha kwa Hiroshima chidzachitika Lachinayi, Ogasiti 6, nthawi ya 8 AM ku First Congregational Church, pakona pa Main ndi Front Street, Binghamton, New York, USA. Masks ndi kutalika kwa thupi kudzafunika. Amathandizidwa ndi Broome County Peace Action, Veterans for Peace of Broome County, ndi First Congregational Church.
Jack Gilroy ndi mphunzitsi wamkulu wa Maine-Endwell High School wopuma pantchito.
