News on Youtube Jun 8 2018

>>> PEOPLE GATHERED IN LOWELL LAST MONTH

TO REMEMBER THE DEVASTATION CAUSED BY THE FIRST NUCLEAR

BOMB EVER DEPLOYED, WHICH THE UNITED STATES DROPPED ON THE

JAPANESE CITY OF HIROSHIMA MORE THAN 70 YEARS AGO.

MANY DON'T KNOW THAT SEVERAL

AMERICAN PRISONERS OF WAR WERE AMONG THOSE KILLED, AND AS

CONNECTING POINT'S ADAM REILLY SHOWS US, A JAPANESE MAN WHO

DEDICATED HIS LIFE TO FINDING THOSE FAMILIES IS SPENDING TIME

WITH THEM IN THE UNITED STATES IN HIS FIRST EVER VISIT TO THE .

>> THANK YOU.

>> THIS EVENT AT THE MEMORIAL PARK

WAS A HYBRID, PART MEMORIAL DAY SERVICE AND PART TRIBUTE

TO THIS MAN WHOSE STORY IS AS INSPIRING AS IT IS

COUNTERINTUITIVE.

HE WAS A CHILD WHEN THE U.S. BOMBED HIS HOMETOWN OF

HIROSHIMA, JAPAN, KILLING ROUGHLY 140,000 PEOPLE.

AS AN ADULT, HE SPENT YEARS RECREATING THE DAYS BEFORE AND

AFTER THE BOMBING, NOT FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF HIS OWN

COUNTRYMEN BUT THE 12 AMERICAN PRISONERS OF WAR KILLED BY THE

BLAST.

AND AS HE LEARNED THE DETAILS, HE SHARED THEM WITH THE POW'S

FAMILIES.

>> WE WENT EVERYWHERE, SHOWED ME WHERE HE WAS BURIED.

I CRIED FOR TEN DAYS.

IT WAS THE MOST EMOTIONAL THING.

>> SUSAN'S VISIT TELLS THE

STORY OF MAURY AND THE WORK HE DID TO COLLABORATE.

[ SPEAKING JAPANESE ] >> NOW IT IS MAURY WHO IS

VISITING THE U.S. IN LOWELL, HE UNVEILED A

PLAQUE AND RECEIVED KEYS TO THE CITY.

>> I AM A CHRISTIAN PASTOR AND THE BIBLE TEACHES AGAPE LOVE

OR UNCONDITIONAL LOVE AND I HAVE NEVER SEEN ANYONE EXHIBIT

THAT MORE THAN HIM.

>> TOMORROW HE ATTENDS A SCREENING AND THEN HEADS TO

NEW YORK FOR A VISIT TO THE U.N.

IN AN AGE WHEN THE NUCLEAR THREAT IS RESURGE NT, HIS

MESSAGE IS MORE REGS THAN THE.

>> YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER TALKING TO VETERANS, IT MAY

HAVE BROUGHT THE END OF THE WAR BUT WE HAVE TO ALL AGREE

WE CAN'T USE IT AGAIN AND I THINK WE'RE TOO NONCHALANT ON

HOW WE DISCUSS IT NOW.

>> BUT IT MAY LEAD YOU TO WONDER WHY THIS MAN WAS

CONCERNED OVER 12 PRISONERS FROM ANOTHER COUNTRY THAT

BROUGHT MASSIVE CHAOS TO HIS OWN?

>> WHY DID YOU DECIDE TO SPEND SO MUCH ENERGY LOOKING INTO

THE LIVES OF MANY AMERICANS WHEN SO MANY MORE JAPANESE MEN

AND WOMEN DIED IN HIROSHIMA?

>> SO I CAN GIVE THEM A FEELING.

I CAN GIVE THEM A REPORT.

AND I CAN GIVE THEM CLOSURE.

IF I DIDN'T, THEN NOBODY WOULD KNEW IT HAPPENED.

>> SINCE MAURY SHARED AN EMBRACE WITH PRESIDENT OBAMA,

I ASKED HIM ABOUT PRESIDENT OBAMA.

HE SPOKE OF HIS CANCELING THE SUMMIT TO NORTH KOREA.

>> IT IS A CONCERN HOWEVER MORE AND MORE, I LEARNED WHAT

HE SAID IN THAT THE STATEMENT, I FELT MUCH BETTER.

I STRONGLY HOPE THAT THERE IS NO NUCLEAR WAR AT ALL.

>> THAT OPTIMISM CAUGHT ME BY SURPRISE BUT MAYBE IT

SHOULDN'T HAVE BECAUSE ALMOST EVERYTHING ABOUT HIM IS

UNEXPECTED.