1 Once upon a time in Brooklyn, New York, on the eve of a war about human rights that soon tore the United States apart,  America’s most famous abolitionist and preacher, Henry Ward Beecher, wrote this : “Our people are vain, and much given to boasting; and because they love flatteries, those deriving from them … More Radiation Sickness Now Reported in Children in Japan; Radiation Crisis Widening – Release is Unabated.