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Hiroshima victims speaks about bomb on 65th anniversary
This article is taken out of a UK newspaper.
ON August 6, 1945 Hiroshima was hit by an atomic bomb. Three days later Nagasaki was hit, effectively ending World War II. MARTIN PHILLIPS reports on Hiroshima survivor Sadae Kasaoka. SHE was 13 when the world horrifically vaporised before her eyes. Sadae says: "Windows in my house blazed a reddish burnt orange. "An instant later the blast from the bomb slammed me into the wall and thousands of glass splinters hit me. "I saw human beings melt like ice sculptures. I saw stones liquefy. It was the end of the planet as far as I could see." It was 8.15am when Hiroshima was all but wiped off the face of the earth by the world's first A-bomb attack. Sadae ran to an air raid shelter, stepping over "bits of blackened bodies". She says: "I still see the flames rising from charred bodies. "I saw ghostly shapes moving towards us, bits of linen hanging down around them. Only it wasn't cloth - it was their skin. "The days after the bombing were one giant funeral. "Most of my schoolfriends were burned on a pyre. Hiroshima stank like one gigantic barbecue. "The cries of the wounded pierced your soul like needles. The cries for water were most heartbreaking." Sadae never talked about her ordeal until ten years ago. She now travels the world with the Voices For Peace group in the hope there will never be a repeat. Tsutomo Yamaguchi, who died earlier this year aged 93, survived BOTH nuclear blasts. He worked in Nagasaki but had been on a job in a Hiroshima factory when the world exploded. Despite being burned, he caught a train home and went to work. As his boss scoffed at his story of devastation the second A-bomb exploded. Tsutomo, later known as "Lucky", knew what was coming when he saw the blinding flash and dived for cover before the blast struck. |
War is an ugly thing.
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we must never forget this terrible thing. Yet still we have nuclear threats.
If we want to have the end of the world it will happen very soon if we do not have sense and not threaten each other all the time. Chernobyl should have been a lesson that the radiation spreads and contaminates countries apart from the original country. I grew up dreading a nuclear attack-- we did civil defence exercises which would have been useless. Japan was already firebombed but it seemed to take this terrible experiment to get the Emperor to end the war. So many japanese wanting to die for the Emperor. would do anything in HIs name. many are responsible for the dreadful war-- and do we ever learn? I don't think we do. I pray that other countries including ours (UK) never set off a nuclear bomb. |
I pray that there will be no more world war on this earth..
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How horriffically disgusting that people can inflict such pain on each other on purpose. God bless the people's souls who've survived with those terrifying memories, and may He give them the courage to continue on their journey of telling people their story.
I pray that these wars will end soon, and that history will not repeat itself. ~HonoraryJapaneseGirl~ |
I agree, Chernobyl was the major red flag in all Nuclear studies. Why would someone set off a bomb, even though they saw what happened in Chernobyl? That's so heart-sickening.
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War, especially in this case, isn't so much about winning, but instead just trying to get your opponents to quit. Unfortunately it took Japan two nuclear bombs to knock it off.
That's how people can justify these incidents, even after they've witnessed the destructive power. |
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