Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki, August 6, 1945

 In solemn memory of the victims of WWII Atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 

On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people. Japan’s Emperor Hirohito announced his country’s unconditional surrender in World War II in a radio address on August 15, citing the devastating power of “a new and most cruel bomb.”

                                                  Dr Abe V Rotor

 

Atomic bomb obliterates Hiroshima, ends WWII, immediately killing 80,000 people.

                        Among the few buildings that survived after the plutonium

 bomb decimated Nagasaki is the Christian church.

 Memory of Hiroshima and Nagasaki A-Bombing

Enshrined in an Old Industry  

Dr Abe V Rotor

I was a very young child in a small town in the Philippines, youngest in the family of three, when this dreadful, ignominious incident took place. I was sort of helping my father in our small basi wine cellar.  

Impressions, innocent they may be in early age, seek their true expressions in later age and may remain indelible. As these become integrated with those of others and the whole of humanity for that matter, they become public images which we know today 65 years after.  

When I retired from government service and from the academe, and returned to my ancestral home, a scenario of my childhood about the Second World War, flashed in my mind like a nightmare. The Hiroshima and Nagasaki A-Bombing!  

On my part, reviving a dying art and industry, is my humble compassion with the victims, and a small contribution to world peace. 

Hiroshima-Nagasaki A-Bombing Anniversary 2017.  

Aging continues to this day in the author's basi wine cellar

in San Vicente, Ilocos sur.

   

Remembering Hiroshima-Nagasaki A-Bombing Anniversary at an earlier date. 

 

Basi wine undergoing aging in glazed jars (burnay) in 18th century wine 

cellar - a tourists' attraction. Living with Nature San Vicente, Ilocos Sur

 

Basi and fruit wine for balikbayan, (returning and visiting residents) 

and tourists