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FERN MCBRIDE (NYC)'s avatar

The Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, 'Enola Gay', with its powerful nose, surrounded by windows, and shining in the sunlight, calls up the bombers surrounding us-US now. They are America's, Enola Gay. They are the enemy within, with the help of others. They are white supremacy, greed, self-interest, capitalism gone mad, lying, dishonesty, Dark Money, cruelty, propaganda, and the angry ignorant anti-government anti-regulation anti-taxes grievance plagued mass -- unleashed.

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Nancy Bekavac's avatar

At the National Arboretum there is a beautiful bonsai tree which was planted in the 17th century, not long after Shakespeare's death. It had been cared for by one Japanese family for all those centuries. It survived the bombing of Hiroshima, and was presented to the people of the United States in 1976, in honor of our bicentennial, by the surviving family members. It is majestic, although less than three feet high. I think of it every August 6, and of the courage, grace and hope that tree represents. Thank you for this sobering reminder of what the U.S. did on August 6, 1945.

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