tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327165758377801408.post6606337728933341995..comments2024-01-26T13:12:55.520-08:00Comments on Feel Free to Read: Enola's GiftGlenn Buttkushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10680725814199700692noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327165758377801408.post-73236409814122622302019-08-06T15:02:35.095-07:002019-08-06T15:02:35.095-07:00That Haiku is stunning. The short prose informativ...That Haiku is stunning. The short prose informative, but that haiku got me. dragyonflyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05120619234558103029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327165758377801408.post-21993606232238782172019-08-06T07:31:49.911-07:002019-08-06T07:31:49.911-07:00Little Boy and Miss Enola Gay.....they sound like ...Little Boy and Miss Enola Gay.....they sound like lovely sweet names from a beautiful fairy tale....instead of the horrific things they were. To know someone who bore witness......who did not know what he was seeing at the time....this is quite amazing.<br />As we toured Japan, we viewed the elderly with new eyes after our visit to Hiroshima. Perhaps one of the most powerful aspects of that visit were the video taped interviews we saw in the Peace Museum, of people who were children at the time...talking about how they and their friends and their family members were impacted. People bearing witness of one of the most devastating moments of war. <br />There is an "eternal flame" in the Peace Garden in Hiroshima and today many will gather to pray for everlasting world peace. I call it an "eternal flame" because that is what I learned to call the flame at JFK's burial site. The Japanese say the flame will be extinguised when there is worldwide peace. Is it then, an "eternal" flame? lillianthehomepoet.wordpress.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12664830773553716989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327165758377801408.post-85385104053679620062019-08-06T01:13:57.567-07:002019-08-06T01:13:57.567-07:00We tend to talk about the horrors of war as if war...We tend to talk about the horrors of war as if war is a sentient being. It's salutary to remind us that war is conducted by real people, against real people, however much they are demonized. Jane Doughertyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14700193165487305298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327165758377801408.post-64451224870723416872019-08-06T00:38:10.238-07:002019-08-06T00:38:10.238-07:00The title struck me first, Glenn: ‘Gift’ in German...The title struck me first, Glenn: ‘Gift’ in German means poison, and that is what Enola Gay was carrying. The quote you chose also struck a chord. As I read the prose, I heard in my head a documentary voice-over, factual and unemotional, interested only in facts – except for the personification of those deadly weapons in the names ‘Little Boy’ and ‘Miss Enola Gay’, which I heard with an ironic tone. The fact that you knew a witness personally makes ’watching the end of the world’ more real.Kim M. Russellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16668459794787447606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327165758377801408.post-38856141053262792222019-08-05T22:43:04.320-07:002019-08-05T22:43:04.320-07:00it was the end of the world, wasn't it?it was the end of the world, wasn't it? Mhttp://grapeling.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327165758377801408.post-61237490176056086122019-08-05T19:26:46.936-07:002019-08-05T19:26:46.936-07:00Unimaginable! Such a sad time in our history!Unimaginable! Such a sad time in our history!Dwight L. Rothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07992133580674047782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327165758377801408.post-56364931280928000572019-08-05T14:44:38.948-07:002019-08-05T14:44:38.948-07:00Words escape on the impact your poem had upon read...Words escape on the impact your poem had upon reading. Your skill in "covering the bases" of one of humanity's greatest acts of evil, even as it was in response to great evil, is stellar, Glenn.Jade Lihttp://tao-talk.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327165758377801408.post-69736326565559041932019-08-05T14:16:59.763-07:002019-08-05T14:16:59.763-07:00Full of facts but compelling none the less. The wi...Full of facts but compelling none the less. The witness of your friend summed it up in a few words. The people I know who were smalk children at the time in Hiroshima said, their world did end.tonispencerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04200564195675794747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327165758377801408.post-76739524649363486832019-08-05T13:25:43.001-07:002019-08-05T13:25:43.001-07:00A riveting tale, and the ironic hint of hope conce...A riveting tale, and the ironic hint of hope concerning the war's eminent end in the haiku. A searing witness!Frank J. Tassonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11034177573832896440noreply@blogger.com