{"id":49,"date":"2009-03-20T13:23:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T13:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.synchrosecrets.com\/synchrosecrets\/?p=49"},"modified":"2009-03-20T13:23:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-20T13:23:00","slug":"two-teacups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themysticalunderground.com\/?p=49","title":{"rendered":"Two Teacups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This story from Jim Banholzer originally appeared under the comment section about <a href=\"https:\/\/ofscarabs.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/magic-teapot.html\">The Magic Teapots<\/a>. But it&#8217;s such a powerful story, we decided to post it.<\/p>\n<p>     Dissimilar teacups are a potent metaphor:<\/p>\n<p>    Several weeks after piloting the atomic bomb that unleashed its devastation upon Hiroshima, Japan, U.S. Commander Paul \u201cWarfield\u201d Tibbets walked through and examined the swelled streets of Nagasaki where his comrades-in-arms had dropped the second bomb.<\/p>\n<p>    There \u201cto sate his academic curiosity,\u201d Commander Tibbets nonchalantly purchased some souvenir rice bowls and wooden teacups, later remarking, \u201cDamndest thing you ever saw.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>    Throughout his life, which ended only last year, Commander Tibbets always maintained that surgically dropping these vaporizing bombs was a patriotic mission that saved both sides millions of lives from what would otherwise have been a long enduring horrendous battle.<\/p>\n<p>    Around the same time as Commander Tibbet\u2019s postwar walk, Navy skipper and Axis sub chaser Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who went on to become San Francisco\u2019s City Lights Bookstore founder, peacenik warrior and beat poet extraordinaire, hiked among the same Nagasaki ruins. There he observed\u2014as San Francisco Chronicle writer Paul McHugh reported two Veteran Days ago: \u201cI saw a giant field of scorched mulch. It sprawled out to the horizon; 3 square miles looking like someone had worked it over with a huge blowtorch. A few sticks from buildings jutted up like black arms,\u201d Ferlinghetti says. \u201cI found a teacup that seemed like it had human flesh fused into it, just melted into the porcelain.\u201d In that instant,\u201d said the former submarine chaser Ferlinghetti, \u201cI became a total pacifist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/greenvanholzer.blogspot.com\/\">https:\/\/greenvanholzer.blogspot.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story from Jim Banholzer originally appeared under the comment section about The Magic Teapots. But it&#8217;s such a powerful story, we decided to post it. 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