Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Rest in peace, Brother Raphael.
I took this photo in 2005 at Gethsemani Abbey near Bardstown, Kentucky. The monks were preparing themselves for 'Vespers', Latin for 'evening prayer'. I was recently informed that Brother Raphael passed away last year and he's buried near Thomas Merton at the Abbey. Brother Raphael infored me that one of the pilots of the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the "Fat-Man" bomb on Hiroshima, lived out the later years of his life at the Abbey. I believe what Brother Raphael told me and I'd love to know more about this individual. I doubt anyone will ever know the whole story...

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