Author: Sophia Jones
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An Unimaginable Love
The sky exploded, the earth in disarray, Yet love refused to be dismayed. In Nagasaki’s burning breath, A mother rose to challenge death. Her daughter lay trapped beneath a beam, A fragile life, a fading dream. Men turned away, their strength undone- But she, burned bare beneath the sun She bore the fire, the weight,…
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Cries of the Soul: Reflections on a Peace Pilgrimage to Hiroshima and Nagasaki
When I was invited to attend the Peace Pilgrimage of Catholic U.S. Universities as an intern for Mapping Nuclear Legacies, I had no idea how meaningful and enlightening it would be. We landed in Hiroshima at about 9 or 10 in the morning, dropped our luggage at the hotel, and then took a tram to…
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Guest Essay: The Evanston Township High School Peace Messengers Club
When I was in my sophomore year of high school, I met survivors and descendants of survivors of the atomic bombings of Nagasaki at my church. Their visit to Evanston was coordinated by Hirokazu Miyazaki, a professor at Northwestern University and a Peace Correspondent of Nagasaki. I almost missed listening to their talk, but my…