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    TOUCH OF HUMANITY

    Jul 06, 2021 2 minutes
    Josh Schick, Curator

    am 81 years old and grew up in Wheeling, West Virginia. When I was in the fourth grade or so, my Sunday school teacher, Wilbert W. Miller, gave me this bowl as an award for perfect attendance. Mr. Miller explained that he was one of the first persons to enter Hiroshima after the bombing. Might you be able to verify his story and the bowl’s origin?

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