final irony of A-bomb attacks

Ted Samsel tejas at infi.net
Thu Aug 10 07:06:12 CDT 1995


DiFi says:
> 
> Letter to the editor in Sunday (maybe Monday; "these days run
> away like wild horses...") NEW YORK TIMES tells of a poor soul
> who might have been invented by TRP.  This man, having survived 
> the bombing of Hiroshima, then traveled to Nagasaki just in time
> for the second bombing--which he also survived!
> When you feel your life is tuff, please consider him!

About 10 years ago I read a novel by a Brit called HIROSHIMA JOE
which was about a British POW in Japan who was captured in Hong
Kong in '41 when it fell to the Greater Southeast Asia Co-Pros-
perity Sphere. Needless to say, he was fated to ba assigned to
a labor detail on a farm on the outskirts of Hiroshima in the
summer of '45.

Another tuff life, no?

Ted Samsel....tejas at infi.net
     "driving a Hudson Hornet on the disinformation triple bypass:
      cruising for burgers & garage sales. Hooks baited, lines en-
      tangled, roadkill cooked"





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