Songs for (Sunday): Cranes Over Hiroshima

I meant to post this yesterday, but I got distracted by another project. So here it is, a little late. I couldn't let the 75th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki pass without invoking Fred Small's "Cranes Over Hiroshima". This version is mostly a montage of pictures of Sadako Sasaki.

You can find the lyrics several different places on the web; this one is what the Wikipedia article links to.

( lyrics, if you don't want to click through: )

Under the following cut you'll find most of the links I collected last week. I remember reading Hiroshima by John Hersey years ago; the link is to the original version published in the New Yorker. Do I need to add a content warning? Consider yourself warned. It's well worth reading if you can handle it, though.

( links: )

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Considering that last week included Ame's 30th birthday and the 75^th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (marked by re-reading John Hersey's book), I'd have to say that it wasn't nearly as bad a week as it could have been. Leaving me free to worry about Colleen's ongoing health problems and the US's ongoing descent into tyranny. We may have a handle on solving the first of those. I'm rapidly losing hope about the second. I don't think I've worried much about the Earth's ongoing climate changes all week. So there's that.

This is not the future I ordered. How do I send it back and get a replacement? Alternatively, I'd really like to wake up now.

I spent most of yesterday working on improved documentation for FlkTex. That will hopefully result in a couple of posts some time in the near future.

The links about Ame and Hiroshima should probably be approached with caution; there's a fair amount of quoting for context.

( Notes & links, as usual )