so that is one reason why i wanted to write sachiko's story, particularly for young people, so that we can keep these stories in front of us because we are now so close to nuclear war again. we know we have north korea and other obvious issues and incidents that we feel the heat again. i would say sachiko's question, how are we going to keep our peace and for the children, how are we going to teach peace? we do a great job teaching war. we do a great job creating a culture of war. how are we going to create a culture of peace in our, in our country and in the world? >> where with -- i think those are great thoughts, and to avoid repeating them, which i would like to do, i'll just say something a little more cosmic which is something that sister meghan said to me back in, i think, early 2013 when she -- this was before she was on trial. she was still free. she and her two compatriots, michael and greg, were at a college event talking about what they did to a small group of christian college students. .. and as soon as she said that, i said, oh. as a writer incident that's a very writerl

sachiko had been invited to minneapolis by the st. paul/nagasaki sister city committee. the longest sister city relationship between an american city and a nation city. they were sister cities in 1955. so sachiko was there to help us commemorate and tell her story of survival and peace, and i met her there. previous to that, i had gone on a battlefield tour. i was very interested in my father's military experience during world war ii. he never told me much about or anything about his military experience. >> they sprinkled human blood on the storage facility, and then they essentially waited to be arrested. that was kind of the only part of their plan that didn't go according to plan. part of the plan was to get arrested and cause a stir and get the public to notice, and they had to kind of wait for that to happen. [laughter] they eventually were arrested. one security guard, who is a character in this story -- the first security guard who responded to the scene -- they were arrested, and they were charged eventually with intending to endanger the national defense which i