Gen Baku no hi………..August 6th, 1945- Hiroshima.
In Japan, today is already August 6th. The 79th anniversary of the atomic bomb was released on Hiroshima. Gen Baku is Japanese for atomic (bomb). As you might expect, there has been a lot of coverage on the various Japanese T.V. networks, including the bell ringing at the hour of the attack. The history is, of course, well documented:
August 6, 1945 is a day the Japanese will never forget. This is the day the world’s first atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Hiroshima. The bomb fell from an airplane named the “Enola Gay” at 8:15 a.m. and exploded 43 seconds later, at 1,900 ft. above the city. The results were devastating. The intense heat generated from the bomb ranged from 7200 to 1000 degrees fahrenheit. Thousands were instantly killed, vaporized from the searing heat. Others were terribly disfigured with limbs melted from their bodies and skin peeling off in large strips. The intense heat melted the eyeballs of some who had stared in wonder at the blast. “Big black flies appeared and tried to lay eggs on human flesh. The injured were so weak that they could not brush away the flies that nestled in their hands and necks.” (Doomsday) said survivor Michiko Watanabe. Throughout the city, parents and children were discovering one another wounded or dead. “A mother, driven half-mad while looking for her child, was calling his name. At last she found him. His head…
