The man who survived TWO nuclear bombs: 'Lucky' Yamaguchi tells how he lived through Hiroshima... and fled home to Nagasaki By Geoffrey Wansell Quite simply, Tsutomu Yamaguchi is one of the luckiest men in the world. This slight 93-year-old with white hair, who is now largely confined to a wheelchair, was formally recognised last week as one of the tiny handful of people to have survived not one but both of the American atomic bombs dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 - bringing to an end to World War II. Known in Japan as one of the hibakusha - literally 'the explosionaffected people' - Mr Yamaguchi had long been recognised as a survivor of the nuclear explosion in his home town of Nagasaki. But now officials there have certified formally that he also survived the Hiroshima blast three days earlier - where he'd suffered severe burns to his upper body and temporary blindness. For years, the dignified, unassuming Mr Yamaguchi has made light of his terrifying ordeal on those August mornings six decades ago, when atom bombs were released on the unprepared, predominantly civilian populations of those two cities in southern Japan. Rather than campaign for recognition, or complain about his lot - even though he spent 16 years wrapped in bandages to help him recover from severe burns - the former draughtsman and engineer rarely talked about what happened to him. But now, dying of cancer, a disease that struck down so many of the other victims of the blasts, he has decided to speak out about the horrors of atomic weapons. 'I want the next generation and the children after that to know what happened to us,' he said, convinced that the use of atomic weapons should be abandoned for ever. 'Having been granted that miracle of survival it is my responsibility to pass on the truth to the people of the world.' No one, says Mr Yamaguchi, should be allowed to forget the devastation caused by those two atomic bombs - the only ones ever to have been used in warfare. An estimated 140,000 people were killed on the first morning in Hiroshima, and a further 70,000 died in Nagasaki. Nor should the world forget the tragedy that it brought into the lives of every person who survived the deadly blasts. Hundreds of thousands more people died in the years after the explosions from illnesses, and particularly cancer, brought on by their exposure to radiation. Read more..... http://tinyurl.com/d8laes Survived two nuclear blasts:eek: :eek: :eek: Amazing story but sad too...
but don't forget According to Chalmers Johnson, the Japanese slaughtered as many as 30 million Filipinos, Malays, Vietnamese, Cambodians, Indonesians and Burmese, at least 23 million of them ethnic Chinese, in Asia. Worse than HOLOCAUST
And no one yet showed up to rightfully mention that 9/11 was an inside job, CIA/MOSSAD operation Perhaps our AIPAC overlords are planning another false flag event Did I mention how you all disappoint me