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depotguy's blog post - A nice story

Tuesday, October 3, 2006, 12:12:01 AM
My town has a bell.



Some mischevious soldiers brought it home from Japan at the end of world war II. They found it on a scrap heap and thought "what the hell?"
Lots of years later a visiting teacher from Japan heard about it and did some research. He found it was thought lost when all the ancient bells were melted for their war effort. It was the only remaining bell from a famous ancient temple.
So we gave it back. It was the right thing to do. Talk is cheap actions are not. they gave us a copy and some money to build this pavillion. It makes a rich deep sound. I rang it tonight.

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Tilac Girl
3-Oct-06 0:38:07
FANTASTIC. It was so very, very good to give it back.

Please ring it for me next time.
Raj
3-Oct-06 1:03:23
Betcha the new one is made in China!!
GioFromItaly
3-Oct-06 7:56:40
agreeing with Tilak... amazing fantastic story
3-Oct-06 11:42:27
cool!!
3-Oct-06 14:29:10
You always ring my bell. :)
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It makes me happy that the town did a good deed, and even though they were rewarded, they did it without thought of reward... *sigh*
straightbutnaughty
3-Oct-06 16:05:21
i love japanese architecture,thanks for posting this pic,or as the japanese would say arigato depotguy san
3-Oct-06 22:53:55
great! thanks