Hachiya recorded from a colleague related the story of four middle school students who huddled together in the street, and were so badly burned from the blast that they themselves knew that they would soon die. ... What I had believed before was that, like mentioned above, people too close to the hypocenter immediately died, and all others suffered prolonged internal effects later in life, years after the bomb, like tumors or terminal diseases. ... I received yet another life lesson from the reading: I completely understood the sentiments of the Japanese civilians of World War II. ...

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