{"id":11657,"date":"2020-01-14T21:13:07","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T05:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/?p=11657"},"modified":"2020-01-14T21:13:07","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T05:13:07","slug":"war-and-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/war-and-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"War and Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><strong>Sage Kiernan-Sherrow<\/strong>\u00a0 | News Editor<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>To commemmorate the 75 anniversary of the end of World War II, twenty-six Oregon communities \u2014 including Independence \u2014 have plans to plant seeds salvaged from the trees that survived the Hiroshima bombing on August 6, 1945. Called \u201cpeace trees,\u201d the Ginkgo seeds are a poignant symbol contrasting growing national fears \u2014 and the subsequent memes\u00a0 \u2014 of a potential \u201cWWIII,\u201d triggered by President Trump\u2019s authorization of a military strike in Iran on January 3.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In Independence, the seeds are to be planted in the Inspiration Garden at Mount Fir Park. Run by the Master Gardeners, the Inspiration Gardens boast medinal plants, fruits and vegetables, a rose garden, and a book box for admirers to peruse &#8212; all nearby Ash Creek and the creatures therin. Portions of the garden also serve as a research facility for Oregon State University; wanderers can observe the fruits and vegetables grown but are asked not to pick them, as they are used for educational purposes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The idea to plant a peace tree in the Inspiration Gardens came from the collaborative efforts of the Oregon Department of Forestry, Oregon Community Trees, and the Founder of One Sunny Day Initiative &#8212; Hideko Tamura-Snider. A Japanese native, Snider founded OSDI to \u201ceducate <\/span><span>the public about the consequences of the use of nuclear weapons and plants seeds of peace, hope and reconciliation among people of the world, through educational presentations and cultural exchange programs,\u201d according to their website.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The hopes presented in OSDI\u2019s statement and the purpose of the trees is a study in irony, as tensions rise following Iran pulling out of the 2015 nuclear trade deal on January 5 \u2014 previously abandoned by President Trump in 2018 \u2014 stating that they will no longer abide by the restrictions reflected by the deal.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Ginkgo tree that the seeds are collected from rests in the Shukkien Garden in Hiroshima, \u201cwhere many people came asking for water and shade after the Atomic bombing,\u201d according to a youtube video titled \u201cIntroduction video Green Legacy Hiroshima.\u201d And, despite recent political occurances, the goals of the volunteers of that project remain the same, as Green Legacy Hiroshima Initiativie Co-founder and Coordinator states, \u201cwe want to pass (the tree\u2019s) message to future generations. We hope to deliver this love from all of us to you.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Contact the author at <a href=\"mailto:howlnews@wou.edu\">howlnews@wou.edu<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sage Kiernan-Sherrow\u00a0 | News Editor To commemmorate the 75 anniversary of the end of World War II, twenty-six Oregon communities \u2014 including Independence \u2014 have plans to plant seeds salvaged from the trees that survived the Hiroshima bombing on August 6, 1945. Called \u201cpeace trees,\u201d the Ginkgo seeds are a poignant symbol contrasting growing national [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1094,"featured_media":10024,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"modified_by":"The Western Howl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}