One of humanity's greatest tragedies

Mr.Takei,At this time in my life,(turned 60 in July). And in hindsight by our loss of Robin Williams and Lauren Bacall,two of among many of my favorite personalities. I would like to tell you I have been a fan since I was a child. I would also like to let you know how much I respect your talent,intelligence,life choices and contributions to our small planet. This is the first time I've ever penned a fan letter,but felt I needed to drop a line while you are able to see it and I'm able to send it. Thank you for making my life better and connecting our generation with young people of today.

I'm glad that George Takei did this video series. It's one thing to learn of the war between America and Japan, and the American Final Solution, such a devastating device being used, and another thing to see how it directly affected every day people, not soldiers, not leaders, but every day people. Mothers, fathers, grandparents in the case of George, and how sad it was that soo many civilians had to pay the ultimate price for war mongering states not being able to work out their differences peacefully. May this never happen again!

These Hiroshima videos are really interesting. Eagerly anticipating the third one.

these videos are wonderful, but they are short. this is one of those subjects i would watch a 4 hour documentary on. i hope we get a lot of installments about Takei remembering Hiroshima.

@loisbernard2187

10 жыл бұрын

netflix has a great documentary about an hour long.

@RinoaL

10 жыл бұрын

Lois Bernard about george takei retrospecting on hiroshima?

I am indeed grateful to Mr. Takei for this moving story, the story of his family, but ultimately, OUR story. Because as someone else noted, there is only ONE race--the HUMAN race. And we are intricately connected to one another...

Can't wait for the next video, I'm so interested to learn more

Thank you for sharing something so personal.

That's a wonderful old keyboard he got there.

Respect!

I wish to visit Hiroshima some day, maybe even live there, as the people seem to have such a peaceful and respectful mind set. This series means a lot to me, as I have done research on the effects, and this is actually showing where your family members lived, giving it a more human viewpoint, rather than an act of war. I have a lot of respect for you, and thank you for making this! :)

I am so glad Mr Takei did this documentaries. I'm Japanese but I did not go through Hiroshima A-bomb. What a terrible thing for innocent people to go through....

We love you! Thank you for this.

Mr. Takei, thank you so much for sharing this with us. I learned about Hiroshima in school many decades ago and have seen documentaries etc. Although, I knew a small bit about it, your continuing series has helped immensely in my understanding of it. It was really interesting when you got to see where your grandparents were when the bomb went off. I look forward to Part 3!

Hi George, that was an excellent video,thanks for doing it!

Thank you so much Mr Takei... How can we help?

This is very touching, I'm in tears. But I'm also in joy, becuase you finaly got answers to a question that I suppose you have been asking for a long time.

1:00 Love how they exchange business cards and bow like proper Japanese people do

Amazing story about your Grandparents.

You went through the internment camp while your grandmother was affected by the atomic bomb? That's horrible. It's amazing how you didn't foster hate for the U.S. Thank you for teaching us these lessons, instead.

@RedMoonCreates

6 жыл бұрын

fucking right, like hearing his stories and learning about his family in hiroshima makes me hate america a lil bit (edit) and im a white american

the guy he is talking to at 1:30 sounds EXACTLY like Michael Shermer.

It's incredibly tragic that so many innocent people perished, but it seems that some good is coming out of the ordeal in terms of research. It by no means justifies the casualties, but this information has helped many since then.

Thank you Mr. Takei to share your story... However, your story is missing out on many important facts. US formed these centers in Hiroshima and Nagasaki (although they knew there was nothing they could do for radiation) to pretend like they were giving some treatments, but they just strip off everyone and checked A.bombed effects to them tip to toes, then they just let them go (without almost any treatments bc they did not want to get radiation from them) and let them die on the streets, so that they can have good natural radiation effect process data on human being in different type of A. bombs from both cities. And those data are used to design the later bombs, and calculate radiation effects from scans we receive in medical procedures. I highly appreciate that you share those facts as well. This incomplete story makes those victims looks like they have got some kind of benefits, which they never received.

I hate war.