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WHEN EAST MEETS WEST

Commentary by Hank F. Miller Jr.

The Blast Center: At 11:02 a.m. August 9, 1945

Photo: The bombing of Nagasaki

At 490 meters in midair above Urakami Catholic Cathedral located in central Nagasaki the bomb exploded. The death toll right after the explosion was estimated to be about 70,000 perished in the Urakami Cathedral area.

The following is a story told by Mrs.Hatsuko Makisaka, who was 19 years old at the time of the bombing.

She was a student at Nagasaki Kassui Girls School. Located in Nishiyama. She was mobilized as a student worker at Mitsubishi Shipbuilding Company. She lived separately from her family at the schools dorm. Her mother and sister lived in Korea, and her father lived in Shanghai, China. She was assigned to the Superintendent’s office along with five other girls. At the Katsu-ura plant they were manufacturing torpedoes.

Even when the air-raid alarm sounded they were supposed to keep on working until the enemy planes showed up over head.

At the moment of the bombing she was at work at her desk.

She saw a tremendous flash and flames in a large circular shaped cloud that rose

Photo caption: Greg Luzinski, Raymond Rolak and Tom Paciorek celebrate the 2010 National Polish American Hall of Fame inductees at the Hockeytown Cafe.

A native of Buffalo, New York, he was celebrated for leading the Philadelphia Phillies to three straight National League East titles in the 70’s. He was National League Manager of the year in 1976. He also had a special celebrity for the way he fractured the English language. His most remembered saying was, \”Half this game is 90 % mental.\”

He started in professional baseball as a minor leaguer for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1942. His baseball was interrupted by World War II. After recovering from shrapnel wounds received at the Battle of the Bulge, he embarked on a long career in baseball.

Kowal was both an NCAA Champion and Olympic Medal winner. She was NCAA

‘Peaches’ Bartkowicz was noted for all her International Championships including the 1964 Women’s Jr. Wimbledon title. She won three medals at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, (demonstration sport).

Baseball funnyman and 18 year major league veteran, Tom Paciorek, kept the audience lively with stories of hasty dugout snacks, some prudent and mostly clandestine.

Paciorek recalled what a tremendous influence Tommy Lasorda had in his career and life. He then amazed everyone by listing all the major leaguers from the 1972 Albuquerque Dukes team. The list made an impression on the baseball enthusiast’s in attendance.

\”I learned how to play first base from Danny Ozark when I just came up to the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1973,\” Paciorek added.

The former University of Houston, All-America in football and baseball, exclaimed, \”I am 1,000 % Polish and proud of it,\” Paciorek started.

Paciorek told of the Chicago Connie’s Pizza chronicles. He needed no further prompting as he