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   George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽 (georgetakei@universeodon.com)'s status on Thursday, 07-Aug-2025 02:19:56 JST George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽

   The stories we tell matter. I know this not from watching but from memory. I was just a child, held behind barbed wire in a U.S. internment camp, when an atomic bomb obliterated Hiroshima—killing members of my family. That horror etched itself into my life and forged my belief in the urgency of disarmament. I’ve heard this horror reflected over and over again in the stories of other hibakusha—survivors of these unimaginable attacks.

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     George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽 (georgetakei@universeodon.com)'s status on Thursday, 07-Aug-2025 02:19:56 JST George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽

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     In 1983, The Day After reached 100 million Americans and helped compel President Reagan to urgently pursue nuclear arms reductions. Narrative power helped make history: treaties followed that slashed worldwide stockpiles by about 80%.

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     Cosmic Librarian (cosmiclibrarian@universeodon.com)'s status on Thursday, 07-Aug-2025 04:22:22 JST Cosmic Librarian

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     I used to babysit for a lady from Japan many years ago, who was also a friend of my mother... her name was Hideko, but everyone knew her as June. She told us once that she was supposed to go to Hiroshima for a field trip with classmates on that day. She ended up staying home due to illness. She lost all her friends and classmates.

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     Rusty Ring (rustyring@universeodon.com)'s status on Thursday, 07-Aug-2025 13:15:53 JST Rusty Ring

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     I remember that. The network pumped it up as a "major event" and pretty much the whole country watched.