the horrors of war and one man's response to what he saw

Lots of stories out there about the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 

And here is one small story about one of those who observed this even from the air.

Leonard Chesire was a RAF pilot who was an observer of the dropping of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.  

but it was not just that one event, but the misery of the war that inspired his work with the sick.

from Wikipedia:

As a result of his experiences in the Second World War as a whole, Cheshire dedicated his life to peace and justice, defining it as ‘not just the absence of war or armed confrontation...peace is the effect, or consequence, of justice...we move towards peace proportionately as we succeed in removing injustice, particularly the injustice of mass starvation, and deprivation.’

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This charity is not well known in the USA: ironically I did not read about it in a book on hospice or medical pioeneers, but in Paul Brickhill's book The Dambusters.

and then there is this: again from Wikipedia:

Cheshire's adoption of the Roman Catholic faith (in 1948) had nothing to do with the bombing of Nagasaki:[23] "Many assumed that it was Nagasaki which emptied him; as Cheshire kept pointing out, however, it was the war as a whole. Like Britain herself, he had been fighting or training for fighting since 1939"