NaJack Gilroy, Chikunguru 21, 2020
Nyamavhuvhu 6, 1945 akandiwana ndiri mumota nababamunini vangu, Frank Pryal. Sekuru Frank vakapfeka yunifomu, Sekuru Frank vakatyaira mumigwagwa yakabatikana yeManhattan kuenda kuCentral Park Zoo kunosangana neshamwari yavo Joe. Yakanga iri nzvimbo ine hupenyu nemhuri dzichinakidzwa nemhuka. Joe, gorira, akaona babamunini Frank vachiuya ndokutanga kurova pachipfuva patainge tava kusvika. Frank akatora fodya muhombodo yejasi rake, ndokuibatidza ndokumupa. Joe akatora dhonza refu ndokufuridzira hutsi kwatiri ... Ndinoyeuka ndichiseka zvakanyanya zvekuti ndakatozokotama kuti ndimire.
Babamunini Frank neni takanga tisina zano panguva iyoyo, asi pazuva rimwe chete iro muHiroshima, vana vechiJapan, vabereki vavo, uyezve, mhuka dzemhuka, dzakapiswa muchiitiko chinonyadzisa kwazvo munhoroondo yevanhu, United States ichirwisa vanhu ve Hiroshima ne atomiki bhomba.
Ndiri mukomana ane makore gumi ekuberekwa wekuAmerica aida zvehondo, kuparadzwa kwaHiroshima kwakandisiya ndisina tsitsi, kana kusuwa. Kufanana nevamwe vekuAmerican, ini ndaive ndakafungidzirwa pfungwa kuti hondo yaive chikamu chehunhu uye kuti kuuraya kwaive kwakajairika. Ini ndaifunga kuti kwaive kutonhorera apo kare marepoti kubva kuEurope akatiudza kuti edu blockbuster mabhomba aigona kuparadza matunhu ese eGerman. Vanhu vaigara mumatombo aya eguta vaive vasina basa neni. Mushure mezvose, isu "takanga tichikunda" hondo.
Merriam Webster inotsanangura kukuvadzwa kwechibvumirano se "kukuvadzwa kwakakuvadzwa kune chimwe chinhu kunze kwechinangwa chakanangwa. Kunyanya: zviitiko zvevashandi vehondo yehondo.
Mutungamiri weUnited States, Harry Truman, akati Hiroshima a guta remauto. Yaiva nhema chaidzo. Aiziva kuti Hiroshima raive guta rakanyanya kuvagari vemuJapan avo vaisatyisidzira United States. Asi, icho chiito chekutyisidzira pane veruzhinji vagari veHiroshima chingangove chiri chiratidzo kuenda kuSoviet Union kuri kuwedzera kuti United States yaiona vanhu sevanhu vakangofanana nekukuvara.
Nhema yekuti bhomba reatomu rakadzivirira zviuru zvevanhu veku America kufa ingori fungidziro ichiri kutendwa nevanhu vazhinji veAmerica kusvika nhasi. Admiral William Leahy, achitungamira mauto eU.S. Pacific, akati "Maonero angu kuti kushandiswa kwechombo chakaipa ichi kuHiroshima neNagasaki hakuna zvakwakabatsira pakurwisa kwedu Japan. MaJapan akatokundwa uye akagadzirira kukanda mapfumo pasi nekuda kwekuvharika kwegungwa kwakanaka. " Pakupedzisira, maguta makumi matanhatu neshanu eJapan aive mumadota. General Dwight D. Eisenhower akadaro mubvunzurudzo yeNewsweek "MaJapan anga akagadzirira kuzvipira uye zvaive zvisina hazvo kuvarova nechinhu chinotyisa ichocho."
PaKisimusi 1991, mudzimai wangu Helene, munin'ina wake Mary, mwanasikana wedu Mary Ellen nemwanakomana Terry vakabatana maoko vakanyarara panzvimbo yeHiroshima apo vashandi vechiKristu vebhomba reUS vakapisa makumi ezviuru zvevanhu veJapan pazuva rakashata iri. Isu takafungawo nezve chimwe chiitiko chinotyisa. Mazuva matatu chete gare gare, muna Nyamavhuvhu 9, 1945, wechipiri American bhomba ane vashandi vechiKristu vakabhabhatidzwa vaizoshandisa iyo Katolika Katurike muNagasaki sevhu zero kuputika bhomba re plutonium kupisa ruzhinji rwevaKristu muAsia.
Vana veAmerica nhasi vachiri kungofungidzirwa nezvehondo here? Denda reCovid-19 inguva inodzidziswa kuratidza kuvana kukosha kwehama nehanzvadzi dzese pasi rino? Ino nguva panguva ino inobvumidza zvizvarwa zvinotevera kuti zvisiye hunhu, hunoshoreka mhosva yekukuvara kwechibvumirano?
Chirangaridzo chegumi nemakumi matatu nemashanu yekupiswa kweHiroshima ichaitwa neChina, Nyamavhuvhu 75, na6 AM paFirst Congregational Church, pakona yeMain uye Front Migwagwa, Binghamton, New York, USA. Masiki uye kuregedza kwemuviri kunozodiwa. Inotsigirwa neBroome County Peace Action, Veterans veRunyararo rweBroome County, uye Chekutanga Chechi Chechi.
Jack Gilroy mudzidzisi wechiMaine-Endwell High School pamudyandigere.
