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VetThe original picture is the black and white photograph of Sumiteru Taniguchi taken by U.S. Marine Sergeant Joe O'Donnell, September 15, 1945, in Nagasaki. O’Donnell waved away the flies and gently brushed out the maggots before taking the picture, and then decided to take no more pictures of burn victims unless ordered to do so.
Vethe looks really good for a 100 year old atomic chicken nugget
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Veti heard a rumor that Truman only dropped the bombs so he'd have a memorable backstory for the war
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RepFagI remember when those bombs were dropped....the radio news and the photo coverage in Life magazine. It scared the crap out of me. I was four years old.
VetDoes a 4 year old even grasp what happened? When I was 4 I got scared when the toilet was clogged because I thought it meant we were going to drown.
ZuckerRepFagGrasp...no. Scared ....yes. I also remember Memorial Day 1945, just a few weeks after VE day. Best Memorial day parade ever.
ZuckerVetVetWay to go Dr G, that's called personal growth. And not the kind that sticks through the glory hole you drilled in your wall.
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Sumiteru Taniguchi, aged 16 in 1945, was about one mile away from the Nagasaki epicenter. A mile away from this small primitive nuclear bomb was not far enough. It was 11:02 A.M.; Taniguchi-san was on his red bicycle delivering mail in the Sumiyoshi-machi area on that hot Nagasaki day. He was burned on his back, left arm, and on his buttocks through his pants, while on his bicycle. I have wondered if he was standing on the pedals going uphill. It is now too late to find out; Taniguchi-san died of cancer, August 30, 2017, age 88. Repeatedly, Sumiteru pleaded with his doctors and nurses, "Kill me! Kill me!" He spent 21 months lying on his stomach in the hospital; it became his eating place and his toilet place. Taniguchi-san spent most of his life warning people that the survival of humanity is threatened by the existence of nuclear weapons.