2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I continue to be utterly mystified. [View all]Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)I also had a co-worker who had been living in Hiroshima when the bomb was dropped. He was just a baby at the time, so he doesn't remember it. But according to what his mother and brother told him, his sister was playing outside at the time and was vaporized. His house, which was close to Ground Zero, collapsed, and neighbors had to dig him and his mother out of the rubble. His brother had been on a school trip and was not in Hiroshima at the time. Imagine coming home and finding out that your whole city had been obliterated! And by that time, my co-worker and his mother had been evacuated to the hills around Hiroshima, so the brother came home not only to see no home, but no family either! After several says of frantic searching, however, the brother was finally reunited with what remained of his family. I can't imagine having to go through that.