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Two very different visions of the hell that is war are seared into the minds of World War II survivors on opposite sides of the Pacific. Michiko Kodama saw a flash in the sky from her elementary school classroom on Aug. 6, 1945, before the ceiling fell and shards of glass from blown-out windows slashed her.
The announcement that US President Barack Obama's visit to Japan later this month will include a stop in Hiroshima is welcome news. Of course, Obama will not apologize for America's 1945 nuclear attack, which annihilated the city and instantly killed about 90,000 people .
Politics doesn't play much of a role pier-side. While the USS George Washington's contested arrival meant many things to different people, hundreds waited in the hot sun Thursday with a single thing on their minds - reunion.