Mr. Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on a business trip on Aug. 6, 1945, when an American B-29 dropped an atomic bomb on the city. He returned to Nagasaki, his hometown, before the second attack . . .Oh, my! This means that he survived not one, but two atomic bombs. Nagasaki was bombed on August 9, 1945.
Mr. Yamaguchi recently celebrated his 93rd birthday.
2 comments:
Minerva,
Don't mean to quibble. But surviving two nuclear attacks and reaching a ripe old age?
Might be the luckiest man alive, eh?
"True dat," as the young and tragically hip say, though I titled this "unluckiest man ALIVE" in a lame attempt to catch both sentiments. ;-)
Oh, Yamaguchi. What are the ODDS?
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