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Wednesday, September 14, 2005

It is you they are calling.

Those who call for help are many. It is you they are calling.
Dr. Marcel Junod (1904-1961): Warrior without Weapons

Marcel Junodin came to Japan on 9 August,1945 – the day the second atomic bomb was dropped, on Nagasaki.

Genealogy of the Junod families of Neuchatel (Switzerland)
http://www.junod.ch/
Marcel Junod achieved that the question be urgently submitted to General MacArthur who, three days later, authorised him to go to Hiroshima with an American medical enquiry commission, two Japanese doctors, and twelve tons of relief supplies. With six transport planes, he left on September 8th:
Marcel Junod spent five days in Hiroshima, visiting all the hospitals, ensuring optimal repartition of the medical supplies, checking what was missing and obtaining further ones, and taking part himself directly in urgent medical care as a surgeon.
This humanitarian action brought him the honour of being the only individual who has a monument to his memory in the Hiroshima Memorial Peace Park.

On September 13, a similar monument was inaugurated in Geneva by the town and cantonal authorities.

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