August 8, 2006

I was born in Tokyo, Japan. The Second World War was finished, and Japan was so poor.

I didn't experience the war. However, I was born in a bus house from midwife from a burnt-out area in the middle of Tokyo. In Japan we pray for Hiroshima victims of nuclear bombs at 8:15 a.m. on Aug. 6 every year, and my heart is broken every time.

I was working in Manhattan on Sept.11, 2001, and my son was working in the World Trade Center (he survived). Why I moved to Rutland in Vermont was because my husband said to me, "Here is countryside and safety." It is the truth. Vermont is so beautiful, and people are kind to me. However, one day I knew Vermont has nuclear plant. I was so surprised. I was against nuclear power in Japan since 20 years ago. Japanese nuclear power plant made from United States. At the time the Three Mile Island nuclear power accident people came to Japan and showed us a map of how many people have cancer after the accident.

Now, I don't understand why Vermont people do not have fair information about nuclear power. Also nuclear power makes plutonium, and it makes nuclear bombs.

Never again, Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

MASAKO GIBEAULT

Rutland