Wednesday, August 26, 2020, 7‑8:30pm Online presentation by Leslie A. Sussan
TTN Members and Guests: FREE (Register)
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With the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings in Japan this month, we have an opportunity to hear about the first-person accounts of survivors who experienced the devastation and lived to fight against any repetition. Leslie A. Sussan, a TTN member, just published a book about her father, Herbert Sussan, whose crew took the only color footage of the aftermath of the bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1946. Hear how Leslie honored her father Herbert Sussan’s last wish that his ashes be scattered at Ground Zero in Hiroshima and the year she spent there building relationships with the survivors.
The book invites readers to think about nuclear weapons from a human scale. Besides learning more about the historical events, participants can discuss what we understand about the “Greatest Generation” — many of our fathers fought in WWII but shared little of their memories and emotions. As we confront a troubled and endangered world today, we will reflect on what it means to look at the enemy or the “other” and find we are looking at ourselves, just another human. History happened then but its ripples change all of us now. What are the lessons we can learn today?
