August 6, 1945. A 29 year old engineer is walking to work in Hiroshima on the last day of a three month business trip.
He's packed. He's going home to his wife and baby son tomorrow.
He looks up and sees a bomber high overhead. Something small falls from it.
Then the sky turns white.
His name was Tsutomu Yamaguchi. He designed oil tankers for Mitsubishi, and he'd been sent to Hiroshima to work at the company's shipyard. He was about two miles from where the bomb exploded.
The blast threw him off his feet. It burst his eardrums. It burned the left side of his upper body, his face and arms. For a while he couldn't see.
He spent the night in an air raid shelter in a city that no longer existed.
The next morning, badly burned, he found two of his coworkers who had also survived. Together they made their way through the ruins to a train station and got on one of the few trains still running.
They were going home.
Home was Nagasaki.
He got back on August 8, covered in bandages. His family barely recognized him. Doctors treated his burns. Most people would have stayed in bed.
On August 9, Yamaguchi reported to work.
He was sitting in the Mitsubishi office in Nagasaki, telling his boss what had happened in Hiroshima. How one bomb had wiped out an entire city. According to Yamaguchi, his boss told him that was impossible. That he must be out of his mind.
And at that moment, through the window, the room filled with the same white light.
The second atomic bomb had just exploded over Nagasaki. Once again, Yamaguchi was about two miles away.
The blast tore the bandages off his burns. The office was wrecked. And somehow, again, he lived.
He rushed home terrified of what he'd find. His house was destroyed. But his wife and son had survived too. They had gone out looking for burn ointment for him and were sheltering in a tunnel when the bomb hit.
Treating his injuries from the first bomb may have saved them from the second.
He was sick for a long time. His hair fell out. He had fevers and infections. But he recovered. He went back to work, raised a family, and lived a normal life for decades. He rarely talked about it publicly.
Hundreds of people are believed to have lived through both bombings. But in 2009, the Japanese government officially recognized Yamaguchi as a survivor of both, the only person ever formally given that status.
Late in life he finally started speaking out against nuclear weapons. He even addressed the United Nations.
He died in 2010 at the age of 93.
He was hit by the only two atomic bombs ever used in war. And he outlived the century they were dropped in.
Begoña Gómez fue a declarar rodeada de escoltas para que nadie tuviera una imagen de la mujer de Pedro Sánchez sentada en el banquillo por corrupción.
Enhorabuena a @libertaddigital por lograr la imagen. Que rule todos los días hasta el 29N.
Murió Maricarmen de su patología.
Y murieron 250 españoles en Valencia porque Sánchez no quiso hacer infraestructuras hidráulicas.
Y murieron 46 españoles en Adamuz porque Sánchez gastó el dinero de las vías en prostitución.
Y murieron 17 españoles con del apagón porque Sánchez se puso a hacer experimentos con las centrales nucleares.
Y murieron 120.000 españoles porque Sánchez no protegió a los españoles del coronavirus.
Y mueren españoles cada día por culpa de las políticas de fronteras abiertas de Sánchez.
Menos hipocresía y más señalar al causante de la muerte y desgracia de tantos españoles.
Se burlaron del asesinato de Charlie Kirk
Callaron con el de Irina Zarutska
Se ciscaron en los muertos en Adamuz, en los guardias civiles de Barbate, en la eutanasia de Noelia, en los muertos del apagón...
Y ahora fingen que les importa una anciana de 87 años
Buitres carroñeros
🚨La letra de "Soldadito Español" la escribió Muñoz Seca. Fue detenido al inicio de la Guerra Civil, llevado a la cárcel y fusiIado el 28 de noviembre de 1936 en las mat*nzas de Paracuellos, acusado de monárquico, católico y enemigo de la República.
Hoy desahucian a Esther de 82 años en Bilbao, por no poder pagar el alquiler social de una vivienda gestionada por la Agencia pública de alquiler del País Vasco.
Como la echa a la calle el gobierno vasco del PNV y el PSOE, y no es Maricarmen, no interesa.
@juanfer_2562@nokai Si si pero 17 años pagando a los árbitros y como no se puede negar metes a los femeninos para sentirte menos estafado por tu club. Se os huele la mierda a kms.
Sí, en Valencia nos acordaremos de la DANA al votar.
➡️Del “si quieren más recursos, que los pidan”
➡️De los 4 días que pasamos SOLOS y abandonados por el Gobierno.
➡️De que asaltaron RTVE con los muertos todavía calientes.
Nos acordaremos del Galgo de Paiporta.
El Hospital de Blanes, inundado.
Si eso pasa en Madrid: Ayuso dimisión, culpa de una construcción deficiente y recortes en Sanidad, concentraciones de la izquierda y especiales informativos.
Como es en la Cataluña del PSC: es culpa del cambio climático.
@Tiralaposta2@MissOptimista Pero q dices payaso, si venís a Europa a limpiar la mierda del culo de nuestros mayores (y esto es literal). Porque no os quedáis en vuestra selva?? Q es para lo único q da vuestro IQ (también os llamamos machupichus por si no lo sabías)
"NO NOS ABANDONÉIS
OS NECESITAMOS"
Lo ha dicho Vivas ENTRE LÁGRIMAS porque sabe que de repente Ceuta ha salido de los informativos.
Si vas a hacer un Rt hoy, hazlo a este post.
CEUTA, NO TE OLVIDAMOS