That is the first step of reconciliation-admission of guilt and forgiveness. I asked forgiveness, and they asked forgiveness for Pearl Harbor and some of the horrible deeds of the Japanese military, and there were some, and I knew of them. This year in Toronto, I again asked forgiveness from the Hibakushas present. ![]() I fell on my face there at the peace shrine after offering flowers, and I prayed for forgiveness-for myself, for my country, for my church. In 1984, the aging priest made a pilgrimage from Tokyo to Hiroshima to ask forgiveness from the hibakushas, the Japanese survivors of the bombs. ![]() He spent the rest of his life actively fighting for peace and alerting the world to the dangers of the atomic bomb. He decided, finally, not to return to the United States, but to remain as a chaplain in Japan, serving his former enemies. ![]() Full of remorse, the young priest went to the hospitals where thousands of bomb victims were agonizing in terrible pain.
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