WHAT PEOPLE HAVE SAID ABOUT MY BIRTHDAY : 9 AUGUST 1945

 

WHAT PEOPLE HAVE SAID ABOUT MY BIRTHDAY

                        9 August 1945

My mother said I was born on the day the war ended.

The newspaper said I was born on the day

we dropped the bomb on Nagasaki.

Margaret Mead said no elders anywhere

know what we know now.

Jim Bodeen

9 August 2026