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Mr. Tanimoto was trying to help some people, but he physically/mentally could not because the people’s skin was falling off and they looked so bad. In order to keep him going, he just kept saying, ”these are human beings”

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I found the description and progression of Ms. Sasaki's leg to be depressing and awful. It was awful how she was not helped for days. The pain she experienced as an innocent was horrible and undeserved.

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I was surprised how many of the doctors were dead so many people were not even treated because they were expected to die. When you got to the hospital you expect them to do everything they can to help you.

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I was shocked when I read the part of the book when the man's eyeballs were melting out of his eye sockets but he was still alive

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I was baffled that the book did not talk about the other bomb. So much destruction and no mention of it. It just went back to talking about hiroshima

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I was surprised how people went back into the city to help people instead of leaving and going somewhere that was not impacted by the bomb.

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I was shocked when I read about how strong the atomic bomb was. I was surprised how it affected amount of blood cells the people had. How did Mr. Tanimoto's white blood count increase and decrease? How are people still affected by the atomic bomb?

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One of the parts that surprised me the most, was that for some people, their eyes were melting out of the sockets and they were still alive. On page 51, there were men with their faces burned and their melted eyes running down their cheeks.

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I was sad to see that Mrs. Kaimai held her dead baby for a lot of days after the bomb was dropped. "Mrs. Kamai, his former neighbor, whom he had seen on the day the bomb exploded, with her dead baby daughter in her arms." pg 57

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In the book it's mentioned that a month after the bombing many plants grew back much bigger/thicker. This confused me because it seems to me that after a bomb that was 6,000 degrees celsius at the center, the plants in that area would die or have trouble growing back.

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I was shocked when I read how the radiation affected the civilians in Hiroshima. The descriptions were graphic and it was effective knowing the stories are non fiction. One example of this is, "most burns healed with deep layers of pink, rubbery scar tissue, known as keloid tumors" (77).

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I was shocked when I originally read about most people helping others out. This is because if a bomb was just dropped my first thought would be to find somewhere safe to go but instead most of these people were trying to help other helpless people. I was also shocked to read throughout the book that most people did not get better. The bomb injured so many people and radiation poisoning made it harder for these injuries to heal.

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I was shocked when I read that people who were heavily injured did not receive medical attention and were just left to die.  The ones who didn't need it as bad were the ones who got to see a doctor. I also wonder why the weather got so bad after the bomb was dropped.

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I was sympathetic when visualizing the images that were described in the readings. There was so much destruction and death. The people of Hiroshima were in so much pain and thinking about what happened to those innocent people almost gives me pain.I kept asking myself " Did the US really think about how this would impact innocent people?" Sure, this would end the war but does the loss of so many lives really make it worth it?

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I was stunned that many didn't die from the bomb itself but many were killed by chocking and suffocating on the dirt that was put into the air by the bomb. "The baby was chocking, its mouth full of dirt." (58) This made me think more about the long term affects of the bomb dropping instead of just thinking of the instant deaths that many faced.

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John Hersey dropped a bomb when he was talking about Miss Sasaki. She was injured after a building collapsed on her. When she was eventually rescued her rescuers left her with some other people who were also injured. I think this showed how many of the wounded were looked at the same, as another body, another death waiting to happen.

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One of the most shocking images that lasted in my mind was visualizing someone's hair falling out due to the Atomic Bomb most likely. Picturing someone losing something like their hair shows that political decisions really do impact people. The doctor was noticing that, "...in the next three or four days, her hair kept falling out of its own accord, until she was quite bald" (68). I was surprised when I read it because there were major effects of the atomic bomb that I didn't realize until now.

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I was disgusted when I read that Miss Sasaki's leg was taking so long to heal and one of the images that has stuck with me is what they had to do to the leg to help it get better. This really shocked me because it was surprising to hear how long it took for her to get better, and what she had to go through while healing. The detail in the description also was very gross. I am also wondering if she got any radiation sickness because I noticed that she was not really showing those type of symptoms.

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I was discusted when I read how the burns aquired form the bomb progressed. It shocked me when I learned that they didn't really heal and often led to death. This resulted in a realization of how severe the burns were and how radiation sickness further contributed them. I was astonished when I learned that people's skin just came off of them. This led me to wonder whether these symptoms occured in all cases or burns and if this type of illness was unforseen.

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I was surprised when I learned just how powerful the bomb was. The atomic bomb had "more power than twenty thousand tons of TNT." (49). This shocked me because a bomb of this much power had never been used, and the amount of people this could have affected, and did affect was immense.

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I was baffled that the book did not talk much about the bomb that dropped on the second city

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I was confused when I read that Mrs. Nakamura's hair was falling off really easily, and she was at one point completely bald. I was wondering is this the result of how her body is reacting to the radiation poisoning or if most people found this to be a problem.

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I was surprised when I found out how the bomb was made and how powerful it was. In President Truman's speech, he mentioned how the bomb, "had more power than twenty thousand tons of TNT. It had more than two thousand times the blast power of the British Grand Slam, which is the largest bomb ever yet used in the history of warfare". This quote showed that many people died and the whole city was destroyed because of this one dominant bomb. The idea of making an atomic bomb then, has now helped different countries make nuclear bombs or has helped them advance in making bigger bombs.

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The quote "In an emergency like this, the first task is to help as many people as possible. There is no hope for the heavily wounded. They will die. We can't bother with them," really surprised me and made me realize how the bomb really impacted the people. The Idea that there is no use in trying to help the heavily wounded is upsetting. In a time like this, they can't waste time and treatment on those who need extra care and are heavily injured. The people knew that many would suffer and unfortunately die, so they realized they shouldn't bother their time with people who don't have a high probability of staying alive.

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I was astonished when I read that only days after the bomb was dropped The Dr was walking throughout the city and he was used to seeing the city is dismay and to see Hiroshima was in ruins.

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I was blown away when peoples eyes were melting out of their sockets. This made me think how powerful and how hot the atomic bomb was after it being dropped

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I was shocked when I read that Reverend Tanimoto was helping people out of the river and their skin was coming off of their hands "like gloves." It made me wonder what the bomb did to them physically that made this happen to their bodies. Is this what happens as a result of radiation poisoning or something else?