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hiroshima by john hersy

 

She was brought to one of the factory's air-raid shelters and was propped up against iron. Eventually Miss Sasaki was brought to a military hospital where they drained the pus from her broken leg. .
             Years later, provided by Father Kleinsorge, Miss Sasaki found faith in the Catholic Church and began to live a new lifestyle. Miss Sasaki was greatly influenced by the Catholic faith that she became baptized. During this time her leg was still troubling her and she had to go for orthopedic surgery. She underwent three major surgeries and stayed in the hospital for fourteen months. After the surgery she took Father Kleinsorge's advice and became a nun, she became known as Sister Dominique Sasaki. .
             Dr. Masakazu Fujii was a physician who was on the porch of his hospital reading the daily newspaper when the bomb hit. With a flash of light he flew into the river with the hospital building. Dr. Fujii was being tightly held down in the water by two pieces of timber. An hour later he freed himself from the wood in fear of being drowned by the rise of water. Once he emerged from the water his cuts became visible because of the blood dripping down his body.
             Once Hiroshima began to get itself together Dr. Fujii opened his own private clinic where he treated patients. His sons followed in his footsteps and also became doctors making the family very wealthy. The wealth caused his family to fight at the time of his death.
             Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura was watching one of her neighbors" tear down their house from her kitchen window when she saw the flash of light. The dropping of the bomb caused her house to collapse burying her and her three children under wood. Once she dug her way out she helped all her children to safety. They traveled to Asano Park where all of her children became ill. They were vomiting, but this wasn't strange because many people in Asano Park were also vomiting from the radiation.
             When she got a home from the government Mrs.


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