Something from our collective memory, I know, I know we only like the Kodak type of memories. But, Trappist monk, writer and mystic Thomas Merton wrote a poem - Original Child Bomb- in 1961, the title being an exact translation of the Japanese word for the bomb that dropped on Hiroshima 67 years ago on August 6, 1945. The poem is a short history written in numbered, laconic sentences about the development and first use of nuclear weapons
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A co-operative production between the land of OZ and the Amerikan heartland NOTE: rebroadcasts at lower bit rates may create undesirable artifacts within the audio.
Commentary by: Vincent Di Stefano reading the poem Original Child Bomb by Thomas Merton
Music (complete or excerpts): Sentimental Journey by Les Brown with Doris Day (1945)
Hell, Fire and Damnation by Jocelyn Pook from Untold Things â 2001 Real World Records
Only the Devil Laughed by Hildegard van Bingen performers: Catherine King, Emily Van Evera and Sister Germaine Fritz from Vision-The Music of Hildegard van Bingen â 1994 Angel Records
URLs of note: http://archive.org/search.php?query=Hiroshima
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