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Knyte
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Tsutomu Yamaguchi has just been recognised has a survivor of both the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on a business trip on August 6, 1945, when the atomic bomb Little Boy was dropped over the city. The resulting explosion left him with serious burns to his body. He took a train the next day to his hometown of Nagasaki, returning just a day before the Nagasaki bombing.
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/national/archive/news/2009/03/24/20090324p2a00m0na006000c.html
I say luckiest because he's still alive, as he survived both attacks.
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Ba'al
Title: Zerg Zergling
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Kinda both, he survived both attacks, but since Nagasaki was his hometown does that mean he had family and friends there? If so, he could be lonely or miss alot of the people he once knew.
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Andrew Man
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Cameron
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+1 Bomb Resistance
...but seriously, I'd say surviving two bomb attacks is definitely lucky. However, whether or not HE is lucky depends on how much psychological damage they did.
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Ba'al
Title: Zerg Zergling
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| Cameron wrote: |
...but seriously, I'd say surviving two bomb attacks is definitely lucky. However, whether or not HE is lucky depends on how much psychological damage they did. |
Yeah, seeing people around you disintegrate or see their skin literally melt away would be rather brain killing.
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nihilisticglee
Joined: Oct 12 2007
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unlucky, although not the most unlucky
yeah, he survived the attacks, but he still had to survive two atomic bombs. A lucky person wouldn't have been placed in that sort of situation
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Cattivo
Joined: Apr 14 2006
Location: Lake Michigan
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Read that in the Trib today, frickin' amazing. He's lucky that he survived, and lucky he's survived that long while being subjected to that amount of radiation. Living to 93 and not dying from cancer by now is incredible.
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username
Title: owner of a lonely heart
Joined: Jul 06 2007
Location: phoenix, az usa
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read it on current. still pretty amazing.
like cattivo, im surprised he is still alive after being exposed to tons of radiation. and im surprised he doesnt have some sort of weird genetic mutation. maybe he got superpowers, and comics would finally be proven right.
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GPFontaine
Joined: Dec 06 2007
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I wonder how this guy is mentally.
You think he hates America?
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Cattivo
Joined: Apr 14 2006
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The article didn't get into politics, but I wouldn't be surprised if he held some sort of resentment against the US. It has been a long time though, and the world has changed so much. Who knows, he might even think that the 7 yr. post-war American occupation ended up being for the best.
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Fred
Joined: Jan 18 2009
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Um... I wonder how terrified the people of the third town he visited were?
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anorexorcist
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| Fred wrote: |
| Um... I wonder how terrified the people of the third town he visited were? |
Win.
I say unlucky for reasons already mentioned. I wonder if he was the inspiration for Radioactive Man.
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Burt Reynolds
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Unlucky. I think it's quite interesting though. There have been a total of two atomic bombs dropped on people in the history of the world. This guy saw both and lived through both. I don't know, I think dying in the bomb, say towards the epicenter, where your obliterated, would be much better than surviving two and witnessing the horrifying aftermath of both.
Our generation can be considered so lucky. I once in a while get a morbid urge to read and watch things on these dark subjects such as the A-Bombs, unit731 the nanking massacre, holocaust, etc etc, never having had to witness any of this in reality. I think that is luck. Or maybe it's by design. Our grandparents our parents our ancestors doing what they could to secure our future.
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