I had heard from my husband John about General Sweeney and the plane coming into Okinawa on fumes. John grew up with the very large, very Catholic Sweeney family in Milton, MA., where Gen. Sweeney lived out his life. That he was the paterfamilias of this big Catholic family made it ever more tragically ironic that he dropped the bomb on …
I had heard from my husband John about General Sweeney and the plane coming into Okinawa on fumes. John grew up with the very large, very Catholic Sweeney family in Milton, MA., where Gen. Sweeney lived out his life. That he was the paterfamilias of this big Catholic family made it ever more tragically ironic that he dropped the bomb on a largely Christian city destroying the cathedral and other Catholic churches. The superhuman forgiveness of the people of Nagazaki and their determination to work for peace, I hope, came from their Christianity. As you say, if so, one of the few extant examples of real Christian forgiveness.
Thank you, TC. The writing and the pictures were sadly riveting.
I had heard from my husband John about General Sweeney and the plane coming into Okinawa on fumes. John grew up with the very large, very Catholic Sweeney family in Milton, MA., where Gen. Sweeney lived out his life. That he was the paterfamilias of this big Catholic family made it ever more tragically ironic that he dropped the bomb on a largely Christian city destroying the cathedral and other Catholic churches. The superhuman forgiveness of the people of Nagazaki and their determination to work for peace, I hope, came from their Christianity. As you say, if so, one of the few extant examples of real Christian forgiveness.
Thank you, TC. The writing and the pictures were sadly riveting.
That is truly an ironic twist to the story, that Sweeney was a strong Catholic.