{"id":7804,"date":"2025-08-05T01:00:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T07:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/?p=7804"},"modified":"2026-02-18T13:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T20:46:08","slug":"hiroshima-and-nagasaki-80th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/hiroshima-and-nagasaki-80th-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiroshima and Nagasaki 80th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>In Seoul, South Korea, I realized I was born during the Korean war. WWII affected my life. Having been to the sites of major attacks, there are lessons to be learned. Here are my thoughts.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1092696110?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&#8220;Well hi, I&#8217;m Jay Arthur, author of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lean-Six-Sigma-Demystified-Second\/dp\/0071749098\/\">Lean Six Sigma Demystified<\/a>\u201d and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/demo\/\">QI Macros [software]<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m here in Seoul, South Korea. We just finished up a cruise of Japan, which was very interesting. I realized my wife and I were both born in 1951, which was right in the middle of the Korean War. That was 70-plus years ago. I think because we were born 6 years after World War II, it was very impactful for me, anyway; I don&#8217;t know about my wife.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;Anyway, over the course of maybe 4 years, I went to Pearl Harbor and stood at the Arizona Memorial and overlooked the USS Arizona in its shallow grave down there, with little bits of oil bubbling up. It was a very emotional experience. I&#8217;ve been to Omaha Beach last year, and that was also a very moving experience [seeing] where the Americans landed. I&#8217;ve also stood\u2026 probably 50 years [ago], I&#8217;ve stood in the concentration camp Dachau, where the foundations were for all the buildings and the furnaces and everything else. That was also a very moving experience.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;This year I wanted to come back and actually go to Japan, so we visited Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Oddly enough, where I&#8217;ve felt connected to these other places like Pearl and Omaha and Dachau, I did not feel a connection. It was a couple of days later when I realized that, oh\u2026 that&#8217;s because in both of these places one minute there were people and animals and houses and plants and everything else, and the next second everything for a kilometer was completely vaporized. The fireball traveled out for another 6 miles\u2026 6 kilometers, and then came back in forming the mushroom cloud. It&#8217;s as if there was a switch, and one minute the lights were on and the next second the lights were off, so there was nothing to connect to\u2026 just nothing.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;In Hiroshima and Nagasaki they say \u201cNo more Hiroshimas, no more Nagasakis,\u201d and in Nagasaki they say \u201cLet Nagasaki be the last city to be bombed.\u201d I think that&#8217;s a pretty good message for the world. I&#8217;m not sure how many people see it. 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