Hello to the brave and the few, the last vestiges of the anthropology club. I’m sure that most of you, like me, have needed a little time to decompress after a long hard semester. So I hope that you’re relaxing wherever you are and enjoying your time off or working towards finishing up am awesome summer semester and about to take some time off (ahem, Alex- hello!)

Anyway, I came across this blog this summer and have been reading it on and off. This post in particular made me think a lot about our (meaning the United States’) impact on the world and the far reaching impact of choices that have been made by past administrations (which of course puts one in mind of our current). I know that there are more specific political details that led up to the decision to drop nuclear bombs on the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (of which I am mostly ignorant) but the glaring fact that remains is we made a clear and conscious decision to not only drop bombs of an unseen magnitude on innocent people but we also papered them with propaganda and started a chain of events that can only have left a deep mark on subsequent generations. I guess the thing that really caught my attention was that I was able to look freshly on an event that has been discussed so often that the word “Hiroshima” only brings up hazy dates but nothing concrete or even worse, any personal connection. This article gave me a little more to think about.

So, I hope that you are all doing well and you’re finding something thought provoking to do this summer, despite perhaps wanting to curl up and give your exhausted brain a well deserved break. Keep in touch.