Black Rain

"Black Rain"

Imagine a day like any other day - the regular routine - waking up, eating, school/ work, homework, etc...the uneventful, tedious, monotonous "black and white" moments of everyday life interrupted by a sudden, powerful, traumatic "full color" life changing disruption...

You avoid the "mushroom cloud" forming in the distance, but yet you can't run from the chaos of the blast or it's black rain.

"Grave of the Fireflies"

Black Rain (quite often very radioactive) is formed from the enormous amount of airborne materials combined with heat/ upward thermal currents produced from bombings.

This "rain" fell as the fallout particles mixed with carbon residue and high altitude moisture to produce a sticky, dark, and very dangerous rain.

"Black Rain on White Wall"

on display at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial 

As we view the atomic bombs (or for that matter war in the Middle East, drone attacks, global suffering, terrorism, police brutality, etc.) from the safe distance of books, classroom notes, video, CNN, etc. we should remind ourselves (and never forget) that true humanity can not allow a safe, respectable distance from black rain.

"The bomb that fell on Hiroshima fell on America too. It fell on no city, no munition plants, no docks.  It erased no church, vaporized no public buildings, reduced no man to his atomic elements.  But it fell, it fell."