We cannot become complacent to war and human suffering

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Figure 1 - Remains of a Buddhist temple in Nagasaki, Japan, September 7, 1945. Image from the Wikimediacommons, from the United States Department of Defense War and Comflict Image Collection, and in the public domain.

Figure 1 – Remains of a Buddhist temple in Nagasaki, Japan, September 7, 1945. Image from the Wikimediacommons, from the United States Department of Defense War and Comflict Image Collection, and in the public domain.

We are so bombarded with images of war and human suffering that we must remember that we can never allow ourselves to become enured to it.  I offer this disturbingly beautiful and haunting image by Cpl. Lynn P. Walker, of the United States Marine Corps taken on September 24, 1945 showing the remains of a Buddhist Temple in Nagasaki after the bombing. 

Hiroshima – August 6, 2014

Nagasaki – August 9, 2014