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[people chattering in Marshallese] [director speaking Marshallese] And I feel, this time, in this time - Growing up on the Marshall Islands, we weren't taught nowhere about the bombings.

I found out more as an adult living in Springdale, Arkansas.

That's when it became like, "Oh, my gosh."

- [speaking Marshallese] Every year, we respect the memory of the people who endured the Castle Bravo nuclear blasts on Bikini Atoll.

The United States must open all the books on what they did in our country during the nuclear testing era and open all the books and all the research they did and continue to do through the Department of Energy on our people, who they had once called savages as they picked and probed our bodies in the name of research.

[audience applauding] - I was only four years old whenever I went back to the island, only three years after the bomb was dropped on Bikini Island.

Why do you wanna take us to the island when it was contaminated?

They said, "It is true, it's contaminated, but it's not dangerous."

[chuckles] I wanna stop here, but I wanna go ahead and tell everybody what happened to our islands.

Whenever I'm talking about it, I am really mad because it happened.

It happened to our islands.

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