Essay On Hiroshima Bombing

The Bombing of Hiroshima August 8, 1946 will be a day etched into the memories of the many people that survived the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima. John Hershey wrote a book titled, Hiroshima, which told the stories of six survivors from that day. The stories that are told by these brave people are heart wrenching, horrific, and almost painful to even read. Two survivors, Akihiro Takahashi and Eiko Taoka, tell a story about the air raid and what they saw after the large red flash had hit the ground. Many people went about their day knowing that there was an air raid in effect but also knowing that they could not stop their lives due to what could happen later on that morning. It was almost minutes after people of Hiroshima continued with their day to day lives that their world was turned upside down in just a few moments. Akihiro Takahashi was a 14 year old boy going to Municipal Junior High School. He was recalling the day that the bomb was dropped. He told of how the school children were standing in the school watching a B-29 flying close to the ground and the teachers running outside to tell the students to fall in and take cover. It was just minutes after that he was awoken and had been blown 10m away from where he was standing. The story that was told after that is a very heart wrenching story, but he knew that he had to
She remembers seeing a bright flash and then she was shot to one side of the car and knocked out for 20-30 seconds. When she awoke she was greeted by her smiling son that clearly had been injured by the flying glass from the windows. Eiko will forever have that memory with her for the rest of her due to her son not making it by the end of the day. He began to drink the milk from her body which had poisoned him and caused his death. Eiko felt that her son had saved her life that day and that he had sucked all the poison from her