We all know lots of reasons why war is hell. Here's another one: no one cleans up afterwards.
Yesterday 16,000 people--including all the patients in the local hospital--had to run for their lives down leafy, suburban streets. Why? While digging the foundation for someone's brand new house, construction workers came face to face with an unexploded WWII bomb. One unpredictable ton of war's leftovers.
Would it explode? No one knew. So 16,000 people were asked to leave their homes, their businesses, their oxygen and IVs.
Luckily, the professionals who came immediately were able to defuse it and carry it away to wherever it is you take one ton bombs.
However...
If there is one bomb under the vacant lot next door, can you be sure there isn't another one just like it hiding under your house?
Okinawa Looks Like This
Peaceful: a beautiful place for a walk
自己紹介
- Chura
- Born and raised in the USA (NJ), I’ve spent most of my adult life in Japan. One of my favorite places in Japan is Okinawa. To me, Okinawa is a land of stories and an island of music, magic and mystery. The music is shima-uta, songs sung to the rhythm of a three-stringed lute called a sanshin. The magic is in the colors of land, sea and sky. The mystery? Mystery begins where the line between legend and verifiable human memories begins to blur. I am a member of the Archaeological Institute of America, chapter chief of a sanshin study society, and a founding member of the Marine Culture Research Association of Okinawa.