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Byline: Jeff Wright The Register-Guard
Pam Garrison has a favorite tool she likes to wield in the campaign against nuclear proliferation: a piece of chalk.
Garrison, a registered nurse at Sacred Heart Medical Center, is the driving force behind the Shadow Project - one of several events planned by local peace groups to observe the 60th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.
The first atomic bomb, dropped Aug. 6, 1945, obliterated more than four square miles of Hiroshima, killing 66,000 and injuring 69,000 more. The second bomb, dropped Aug. 9 on the industrial section of Nagasaki, killed 39,000 and injured 25,000.
Thousands were vaporized immediately, their human shadows burnt into the streets.
Next Friday, Garrison and others will take...
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