I saw this painful photograph in a museum in Los Alamos, New Mexico, birthplace of the bomb that the U.S. dropped on this woman and her children in Nagasaki, Japan. Karleen Gribble shared both this copy of the photo with me and this article about what happened to the mom and her children.
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I should NOT have read that article about what happened to that mother and baby. This photo is so heartbreaking.
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I know Elita. The photo is devastating and the article adds so many more layers. It is important though to make the women in these photos real.
That is gut-wrenching, Jake. A mother’s love is so strong. Incredible that she had the strength to get her family to the place where she’d hoped to receive medical assistance. Her children were deeply loved.
How eerily prescient it was to put that photo up on your website, just a few weeks before the partial nuclear meltdowns occurring in Japan as a result of the earthquake/tsunami, some 70 years later . . . so very sad.
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I was thinking the same thing, Bettina.
The photo has a powerful message. is it possible to obtain permission for use of this photograph in a presentation to nurses and other healthcare providers?
thanks
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My understanding is that this photograph is currently in the public domain so no permissions are required for use.