[szyzygy]

This story reminds me of when I asked my high school physics teacher, brother phillip neri of the xaverian brothers, if it was true that he worked on the manhattan project. Rumors were that he did, so one day in the shop of the school, I asked him about it, expecting a to hear a good story. Instead, he screamed at me that "10's of thousands of people were vaporized in an instant!" He was very upset but then immediately regained his usual calm disposition. As a 17 year old kid, I felt bad and apologized and he told me to not worry about it.