(For invitation, see previous post)
Dear Michiko, Riji-kai, and everyone who has helped with this monument,
Dear Michiko, Riji-kai, and everyone who has helped with this monument,
This is so wonderful it
takes my breath away! It is the culmination of so much work and so many dreams!
You have all been so patient with our family in our making so many demands for
changes in the wording and picture on the monument. I deeply apologize for the
continual inconvenience we--I--caused you. But I believe the end product is
beautiful and will be a witness and inspiration to other foreigners who visit
the Peace Park and see what God can do through any individual listening to
Him.
We feel so privileged to be
invited to the ceremony. I see this ceremony as closure, a perhaps final
opportunity to honor the generation actually exposed to the atomic bomb for
their dedicated, tireless, unfailing commitment to peace and the abolishment of
nuclear weapons. Among these hibakusha we can now count all those irradiated by
the disasters at the Fukushima power plants. Radiation, whether from bombs of
war or power plants for peace, still kills. I want to be a part of declaring the
use of nuclear energy--because of the short- and long-term risks--to be inhuman
and "politically incorrect."
It is also closure for my
mother's involvement with Hiroshima and the hibakusha, symbolically laying her
spirit to rest in the city she came to love and feel a part
of.
Jerry and I accept with
pleasure the invitation to the unveiling ceremony. It seems appropriate that it
be held during the week of my mother's birthday, June 12.
Blessings,
Jessica
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