And as an old man he served sushi to US president Barack Obama....

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[–]neolib 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I like the story of this guy:

On 6 August 1945, he was in Hiroshima, preparing to return home from a business trip when the American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, dropped an atomic bomb on the city. Yamaguchi lived, while 140,000 other people who were in the city that morning died, some in an agonising instant, others many months later.

Burned and barely able to comprehend what had happened - only that he had witnessed a bomb unlike any used before - Yamaguchi spent a fitful night in an air raid shelter before returning home the following day.

That home, 180 miles to the west, was Nagasaki. His arrival came the day before it was devastated by a second US atomic bomb on 9 August.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/mar/25/hiroshima-nagasaki-survivor-japan

He died of stomach cancer on 4 January 2010, at the age of 93.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsutomu_Yamaguchi

[–]In-the-clouds[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Poor man had to endure this weapon in both cities. He asked:

I can't understand why the world cannot understand the agony of the nuclear bombs. How can they keep developing these weapons?

Most of the people will not understand until they experience an atomic blast themselves. And then many will care, but it will be too late for most.

[–]In-the-clouds[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

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[–]GuyWhite 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

That will teach you about bombing Pearl Harbor….do not do that again. Time to surrender, or we’ll drop a third one.

[–]In-the-clouds[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

America will have to learn its lessons an even harder way.... Babylon will suffer complete destruction in one hour.