Thursday, November 25, 2010

A man survived both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs.

Unfortunately, this remarkable individual passed away earlier this year at the age of 93. Tsutomu Yamaguchi is the only individual to be recognized as having survived both atomic bombs during World War II. Back in 1945, Yamaguchi was on a business trip to Hiroshima when the first bomb dropped on August 6th. The blast caused him to go blind and deaf temporarily, and had serious burns across his body.

He returned home to Nagasaki three days later to a second atomic bomb less than 2 miles from his house! The explosions caused him to go completely deaf in his left ear. In later years, he suffered from complications such as leukemia, cataracts, and other bomb and radiation-related illnesses. Yamaguchi was one of 200,000 Japanese citizens recognized as having been affected by either of the bombs.

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