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Hiro, I read your essay from August 8, 2010, with rapt attention. Well deserved and a necessary read for these present times. Our US Presidential election a week from today asks if we are citizens that value all human life, or the ones filled with hatred and disgust for all the “others.”
To avoid becoming completely tangential with my comments I’ll wrap this up after saying I hold you in great admiration for the course you’ve chosen for your life. That is, becoming the embodiment of the origami doves made by the 15-year old girl despite the enormous pain and confinement to her hospital room. Transcendence.
Thank you for your kind appreciation, Gary. This year, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, the group which represents survivors of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Hope blooms in the most devastated places.
The US Presidential election weighs heavily on us here in Canada, as it does around the world. We are deeply interconnected, and we stand in solidarity with millions of you who are phone banking, and working to get out the vote in your local and state communities. Your brave and essential fight for democracy against the ugliest forces of totalitarianism, misogyny, racism, fascism -- this is our fight too.