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And as an old man he served sushi to US president Barack Obama....(hostux.pics)

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neolib 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun 2 months ago

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 2 months ago

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.