Hiroshima life story

Today in history, on this day August 6, 1945, U.S. bomber, the Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima Japan killing over 80,000 and injuring thousands more.
President Harry Truman made the decision to end the war because Japan had not surrendered.
Truman felt that a long war with Japan and our allies having to fight them would cause mass casualties, so at 8:16 a.m. Japanese time the bomb was dropped.
The name of the atom bomb was called “Little Boy,” and a second bomb named “Fat Man” was dropped on Nagasaki Japan a short while later.Over 60,000 more Japanese would die from radiation within a year’s time from the first blast.
Robert Oppenheimer the physicist who worked on the bomb said“We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent.

Shigeko Sasamori told a classmate look at that beautiful plane,’” she said.Something white dropped from the bottom of the plane, and before she could even realize it, a strong force knocked her to the ground.“I don’t know how long I was unconscious but when I woke up, everything was pitch dark.”When her eyes came bac into focus gradually saw the city around her. People moving slowly and skin hanging from their bodies.“That moment changed my life,” she said. More than six decades later Sasamori tells anyone who will listen about that day when nearly 140,000 people died in the blink of an eye. She is petite and energetic, and her face still bears the scars from radiation burns that once covered a quarter of her body.Sasamori said she regained consciousness and began to follow a slow-moving crowd. A screaming baby brought her sense of hearing back. They crossed the river when a man in the crowd said the other side wasn’t as damaged.When she got to the other side Sasamori went to a schoolyard . Somehow, she wound up in the school’s dormitory for four nights and five days. She slipped in and out of consciousness, surviving without food or water.She dreamt of crawling toward water, struggling to pull her body along the ground. She heard faint calls of people calling her name and she tried to respond. When she finally awoke the first thing she saw was a mosquito net draped over her body to protect her charred skin from flies. Her parents also managed to survive the blast.They took care of her at home because ther werent very many doctors. Many of the doctors died when the bomb exploded.Her mother dipped pieces of fabric in vegetable oil and held them to her cheeks, which were fried by radiation burns.

I remember back in August 1945, when i was 13 years old. Early in the morning i heard a loud siren and thought the americans were coming to bomb Hiroshima. My family ran to the shelter home where we practiced evacuation drills. One hour later a siren went off and we began to exit.

A couple of friends and me were still in the shelter when we heard a big noise like a 'BOONG!' 'BOONG!' Like that. That was the sound." After the sound, I heard a loud scream coming from one of my friends. As the bomb was coming down she happened to be looking at the clock and was immediately blinded i guess from all the radiaton. I remember seeing "dead people all over.I can remember, I saw a soldier that was right on his horse just dead! Also that a streetcar had stopped just at that moment of the bomb and the people still standing, dead."

"Mainly, I just wanted to find my family. Finally! I was home and of course my home was gone and I could not find none of them." We all got split up in the shelter and when everyone left it was very hard to find them.
Surviving the bombing of my city has made her appreciate everything even most of the small things. I go out every morning and look at the sky and the sun and I am very appreciative of everything I have. You don't always have that, I carry that sad emotion, yes, and when I talk about it, it comes back. And I just take my hand and I erase the picture from in my mind.

I also live with fear. I fear the end of the world. I would say i wish more than anyhing there will never be another bombing like that. We all have to work towards peace. That's the only way I know how to put it.

On August 2nd Hiroshima was the primary target in Japan for the atomic bomb to be dropped and cause the surrender of the Japanese in World War II. On August 6 Little Boy(atomic bomb) was dropped on Hiroshima causing many deaths and destroying the whole city. The firestorm in Hiroshima ultimately destroyed 13 square kilometers(5 square miles) of the city. Almost 63% of the buildings in Hiroshima were completely destroyed after the bombing and nearly 92% of the structures in the city had either been destroyed or damaged by the blast.



Total deaths- Ranged to about 100,000 to 180,000 out of the whole population of 350,000.