<p>In his life, Michio Terao had to climb a lot of mountains, emotional as well as physical, that touched him in a way perhaps only another Japanese-American could truly understand.</p>
<p>On Aug. 6, 1945, he was recovering in a Colorado hospital from a serious knee wound suffered while serving with the all-Japanese U.S. 442nd Regiment in Europe when he heard America had dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.</p>