Woman who lived in Hiroshima when U.S. dropped atomic bomb recalls finding city destroyed #shorts

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[AndorranStairway]

100 years old and she speaks so well and sharp of mind. Remarkable

[thaQun]

My grandma is from Japan and she was I think 5 or 7 when this happened. She said this was the most horrifying thing she's ever endured. She said the most eerie thing was after was how quiet it got after the bombs. She many years later met my grandpa and moved to the USA. She told me a couple years before she passed that when we have test tornado sirens it gives her PTSD and she has to go check out the window to make sure everything is ok. Such a beautiful woman I miss her dearly😢

[Clintosaurus]

I taught English to a Japanese woman in Japan who lived through the bombing in Nagasaki. During that time, she told many stories about what life was like during the post-bombing and how hard it was. She lost almost all of her extended family including her father. She missed out on so much schooling, but that lead to her valuing learning deeply, which was why she continued to take various language classes even into her 90s. I cherish the fact that I was able to teach her and learn from her. I’m not sure I’ll ever meet another survivor of the bombings.

[aaronaragones]

There's no such thing as winners in wars. Only survivor. Rest in peace to all victims of war

[edgardodomingo]

"War isn't about who's right, it's about who's left."

[SingerSathishRam]

She is extremely lucky to escape from this tragedy but lost his family😥

[greaterthanme]

I saw Oppenheimer in theater yesterday. It was one of the most disturbing movies I have ever seen. I cried so hard the moment the bomb exploded. The capacity of human beings is deeply upsetting.

[romeoatable]

I'm amazed she has not gotten radiation sickness from walking to her home and she living a full life

[mickyminnickys]

My Bachan was 13 years old when the bomb dropped. Her family owned a large plot of land in Hiroshima. A bookcase fell on top of her and gave her a lifetime of back pain, but it shielded her from the blast and she survived. She was actually the only member of her family who survived with no radiation sickness or cancer repercussions. The embassy of Japan would fly her back to Tokyo every year for testing until she wasn’t able to make the trip anymore. She was the simultaneously the gentlest and strongest woman I’ve ever met. I’ve started learning more Japanese since her passing to feel closer to her. I miss you Bachan

[breeliebaker]

This poor woman… I’m glad she was protected (though my soul shatters for all of the other people who weren’t.) I’m glad she gets to tell her story.

[stephen]

Apparently the fallout material is not as bad as they make us believe, people who entered the area lived on that's a miracle and japan has been built back and is a rich country

[adamesd]

There’s a book about a guy who lived in Nagasaki and visited Hiroshima when the bomb dropped. He survived and made it back to Nagasaki, traumatized by what he had experienced. Just in time for the second bomb. He survived that also, although he almost went mad at one point thinking the inferno had somehow followed him. He lived to a ripe old age of something like 96 and did quite a bit with his life.

I think six people are known to have experienced both bombs.

[falloutfan-cmts]

As a boomer I grew up on stories from the men in our family. My dad was a prisoner of war in Japan for 3.5 yrs and told me the locals helped sneak food to them in the camp and if they were out on work detail the locals showed them how to smuggle stuff inside the fence. I would loved to have heard their side of the war. Dad said the Japanese army treated the locals like slaves.

[celestialsupernovas]

How different a person looks from when they are 22 to 100 is truly remarkable.

[dyzeeyq]

I had a friend when I was in my teens, who had been pulled from teach English at UC Berkeley to work on the Manhattan Project. Phyllis said after the bombs had be deployed she came to work at the lab one morning and there about a hundred 5 gallon sealed tin cans in the lab and she was told to examine the contents. When she ipened the cans they were filled with faces, hands, feet, and other body parts from the Japanese victims of the bombs.
She was to analyze the effects of the bombs and the radiation on humans.
That poor dear lady suffered so horribly knowing what she had helped to create and now the consequences wrre before her. The faces that had smiled, the hands that had held children, feet that had journeyed to loved ones homes..
Her experience affected me in my formative years.
RIP Phyllis Reynolds.

[ofCornPopsBigBadB_____ez]

Can u imagine not only realizing that picking up a bag of rice just saved your life, but being a young girl just coming home with food not realizing what just happened and then seeing your whole town devastated by war ?! Thats a heart dropping in the pit of your stomach feeling. She's been through it. Respect and admiration ✊️

[afrikasmith]

I heard a story about a man who survived the bombs in Nakasaki and Hiroshima. He had a wife and child who survived the blast but eventually died later on because of the radiation. He lived into his 90s. It's sad that someone had to go through that, but it's quite extraordinary that someone could live a long life even after those hardships.

[twelvestitches]

And yet the Japanese still did not surrender and a second one had to be dropped. Even after that the Japanese government met and voted to continue fighting the war but the emperor spoke up and said, "If we continue the war I will be the emperor of nothing."

[itiscleartome]

Imagine coming back from a little trip and finding your whole city is done 😢

[vilmalugay]

She's still strong at aged 100. God bless her