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At 91 I’m sitting here...waiting for my nurse...reminiscing August 9th of 1945, Peering through my tears, again, knowing that, today, very few of those who were involved are still alive. The man I share my room with has a lot of trouble sleeping, and when he fin’ly dozes off, I do my very best Not to - even slightly, interfere...I make no noise…‘cause, like myself, he’s fairly weak, and needs a lot of rest. Both of us each other’s only friend...our fam’lies gone...no one popping in from time to time to just say, “Hi.”... Wisely never entertain events demanding ‘days’, merely - reminiscing - as we calmly wait to die! On April 23rd of 1920, I was born...while Mr. Nagasaki came to be in ‘24... And 90-plus years later we’ve ironically wound up - ‘calmly waiting’ - side-by-side… same nursing home...same floor... Only to discover that we’ve several kindred views. Like - when it came to tactics in the war of ‘45, Both of us believe that countless died that never should have, and share, alike, a sense of guilt that we are still alive. And, while agreeing, in the end, what had been accomplished - crushing Hitler’s evil - was a cause worth dying for - We see the use of nuclear weapons - which the Allies did - an inexcusable, unforgivable means to win the war. But I don’t have the strength, or guts, to tell him all he lost - most his fam’ly...many friends...and 60 years of pain - Was, in part, because of me, ‘cause...what he doesn’t know is...I’m the tortured, nightmare-haunted-soul that flew the plane!
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