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Tsutomu Yamaguchi was a 29-year-old engineer for Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in 1945. On August 6th, he was on a business trip in Hiroshima. He was roughly two miles from the epicenter of the first atomic bomb dropped in warfare. Horribly burned, temporarily blinded, and with one eardrum destroyed, he suffered radiation exposure as he struggled to get home—to Nagasaki. While telling his ordeal to his boss, the second bomb was dropped. “I thought the mushroom cloud had followed me to Nagasaki,” he recalled years later. He lived to be 93. You can read Yamaguchi’s poetry in his book, And the River Flowed as a Raft of Corpses.
To learn more, check out: To Hell and Back: The Last Train From Hiroshima,
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