I volunteer at a nursing home a couple hours a week and as I was pushing this gentleman back to his room he started pointing to pictures on the wall and asked me where or what I knew it was and I had no idea. So he asked if I had a minute and I told him that I had 5 minutes and he said that was plenty.
He started telling me about the one picture with General Tibbets and that he was friends with this man and served with him. The one thing that General Tibbets is known for is that he was the first pilot to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I did remember this because I had taken a course not too long ago about China and Japan, we learned about General Tibbets briefly but I read about him because I did a paper on him awhile ago.
Well this resident had told me that he was the announcer for when Tibbets was going to drop the atomic bomb...
It's really interesting how the mind works and how much of an impact an event has on people? The whole time the resident was telling me this story he was crying and it was just making my heart melt watching him cry and almost reliving that memory again.
He kept telling me that as he was reliving the memory of when he had to speak, that the one thing he remembers distinctly saying is, "I am just a man" and when he said that I thought of everyone and how we are all humans, we are all the same. It doesn't matter how much materialistic things that one may have or that their reputation is a governor, congressman, celebrity, famous dancer, movie star...it doesn't matter because we are human and we are all the same...
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