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.