“”No-one takes responsibility,” says Shim Jin-tae, an 83-year-old survivor. “Not the country that dropped the bomb. Not the country that failed to protect us. America never apologised. Japan pretends not to know. Korea is no better. They just pass the blame - and we’re left alone.””
Why should America apologize? We gave the Japs every opportunity to surrender before dropping the bomb...
But what weighs more heavily is that the pain didn’t stop with her. Her son Ho-chang, who supports her, was diagnosed with kidney failure and is undergoing dialysis while awaiting a transplant.
“I believe it’s due to radiation exposure, but who can prove it?” Ho-chang Lee says. “It’s hard to verify scientifically - you’d need genetic testing, which is exhausting and expensive.”
She’s 88 which means by my calculations she was eight years old at the time the bomb dropped....if she had her kid at age 23 that means he would’ve been born around 1960....yet somehow he got kidney cancer from the radiation despite being born 15 years after the bomb was dropped?
There was also an American POW facility in Hiroshima at the time the bomb was dropped yet you never here anything about those American GI’s...
My father served during the occupation of Japan with the 108th Quartermaster American Graves Registration Service platoon. He recovered the remains of 7 American and allied POWS from Hiroshima according to the documents I read about his units operations during the occupation of Japan.
His company recovered the remains of thousands of American MIA, KIA and POWS during the occupation only to turn around and have to repeat the grizzly process all over again beginning on June 25th, 1950 in Korea. I estimate that the company he served with and eventually was promoted to commander of processed well over 30 thousands US soldiers remains for repatriation back to their families in the United States. He suffered with PTSD till the day he died from the things he saw.
After my father passed in 1998, an autopsy revealed that cancer had metastasized throughout his abdomen. We believe it was from KIA recovery operations in and around Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The good lord spared my father the suffering from cancer and took him with sudden heart failure. He would be 110 years old this year