Memorial service at Tinian's A-bomb assembly pit
Participants in the two-day Manhattan Project Symposium held at the Tinian Dynasty Hotel and Casino were joined by island residents yesterday at the atomic bomb assembly pits in North Field Tinian to memorialize the 65th anniversary of the dropping of the first A-bomb used in combat over Hiroshima.
In a brief ceremony littered with moments of high drama, a stunning moment of reverence was occasioned when “taps” was sounded in an ambience where only the sound of the wildlife in the surrounding habitat could be heard.
Prior to that, CNMI historian Dan Farrell extemporaneously reflected in poetic and lyrical tones the significance and symbology of the two pits that assembled the uranium bomb “Little Boy” and plutonium bomb “Fat Man” into the annals of human history, radically shifting the course and confluence of many lives.
U.S. Air Force Gen. Douglas Owens' remarks affirmed Farrell's sentiments when he declared that the happening initiated from Tinian 65 years ago changed the course of U.S. history, determining national policies and programs, including those of the Air Force in the Pacific....
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In a brief ceremony littered with moments of high drama, a stunning moment of reverence was occasioned when “taps” was sounded in an ambience where only the sound of the wildlife in the surrounding habitat could be heard.
Prior to that, CNMI historian Dan Farrell extemporaneously reflected in poetic and lyrical tones the significance and symbology of the two pits that assembled the uranium bomb “Little Boy” and plutonium bomb “Fat Man” into the annals of human history, radically shifting the course and confluence of many lives.
U.S. Air Force Gen. Douglas Owens' remarks affirmed Farrell's sentiments when he declared that the happening initiated from Tinian 65 years ago changed the course of U.S. history, determining national policies and programs, including those of the Air Force in the Pacific....