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It’s been posted on HN before, but if this topic interests you, John Hersey’s famous reporting on the aftermath at Hiroshima (entitled “Hiroshima”) is worth reading. It’s essentially a short book, but the accounts laid out in the story make the impersonal tragedy into something that’s tangible. It should be required reading.
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> Yamaguchi was born in Nagasaki, Japam, on March 16, 1916.
What an awful experience. I can't imagine going through something like that and remaining silent about it for decades. If you want to read a novel from the perspective of someone experiencing the bombing of Hiroshima (based on historical records) I highly recommend Black Rain by Masuji Ibuse
Incredible that he lived so long despite the exposure
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I wonder what us kiwis did to deserve this.
What an awful experience. I can't imagine going through something like that and remaining silent about it for decades. If you want to read a novel from the perspective of someone experiencing the bombing of Hiroshima (based on historical records) I highly recommend Black Rain by Masuji Ibuse
I can imagine the staying silent part is dealing with trauma ? I have family who returned from the war and couldn't discuss it.
Reading this is truly harrowing. It makes me also realize how truly deplorable Putin is for constantly threatening to recreate such a situation for his own personal gain. Seems to me that people like him haven't read this persons account of what it was like. Still wounded and heavily bandaged, Yamaguchi returned to work on August 9, the day Nagasaki was bombed. That is the greatest example of Japanese work ethic and…
I always find it fascinating to hear stories like that and immediately feeling bad that my first thought is: what is the likelihood of this being an identity theft comlared with likelihood that after surviving two atomic bombs one lives up to 93 years?
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