{"id":111126,"date":"2018-05-14T12:00:44","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T11:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=111126"},"modified":"2018-05-13T15:49:46","modified_gmt":"2018-05-13T14:49:46","slug":"a-bomber-pilot-speaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2018\/05\/a-bomber-pilot-speaks\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bomber Pilot Speaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The stain of death spreads below,<br \/>\nbut from my cockpit I see none of it.<br \/>\nI only drop bombs as I have been trained<br \/>\nand then, far above the haze and blood,<br \/>\nI speed toward home.<\/p>\n<p>I am deaf to the screams of pain,<br \/>\nDo not smell the stench of slaughter.<br \/>\nI try not to think of children shivering<br \/>\nwith fear or of those blown to pieces.<\/p>\n<p>They tell me I am brave, but<br \/>\nhow brave can it be to drop bombs<br \/>\non a crowded city? I am a cog, only that,<br \/>\na cog in a fancy machine of death.<\/p>\n<p><em>________________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/david_krieger-e1515860118544.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-49462\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/david_krieger-e1515860118544.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><em>David Krieger is founder and president of the <\/em><em>Nuclear Age Peace Foundation<\/em><em>, and a member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tpu\/\" >TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment<\/a>. <\/em><em>Amongst several of his wide-spanning leadership endeavors in global peacebuilding, he is a founder and a member of the Global Council of Abolition 2000, councilor on the World Future Council, and is the chair of the Executive Committee of the International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility. Dr. Krieger is the author of many books and studies of peace in the Nuclear Age. He has written or edited more than 20 books and hundreds of articles and book chapters. He is a recipient of several awards and honors, including the OMNI Center for Peace, Justice and Ecology Peace Writing Award for Poetry (2010)<\/em>. <em>He<\/em><em> has a new collection of poems entitled <\/em>Wake Up<em>.\u00a0 For more visit the <\/em>Nuclear Age Peace Foundation<em> website: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wagingpeace.org\" >www.wagingpeace.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The stain of death spreads below,<br \/>\nbut from my cockpit I see none of it.<br \/>\nI only drop bombs as I have been trained <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":49462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}