Japanese man certified as double A-bomb victim

[old_pop2000]

FYI

Talk about being in the wrong place at the wrong time.... twice

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090324/ap_on_re_as/as_japan_bomb_victim

[Ed Rotondaro]

FYI

Talk about being in the wrong place at the wrong time.... twice

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090324/ap_on_re_as/as_japan_bomb_victim

Dennis:

Talk about bad karma eh?:eek:

[keschofield]

Dennis:

Talk about bad karma eh?:eek:

Tough things to go through, but when you consider that he was nuked twice and survived, you might consider him lucky.

[Ed Rotondaro]

Tough things to go through, but when you consider that he was nuked twice and survived, you might consider him lucky.

Kurt:

Some people say there's no god. Go figure.

[steel_selachian]

This one's pretty weird as well - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet_Jessop

You'd think she'd have learned to stay away from that class of ships.

[asnrobert]

This one's pretty weird as well - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet_Jessop

You'd think she'd have learned to stay away from that class of ships.

Perhaps she was a jinx (or jonah, as sailors would say)....

[old_pop2000]

Dennis:

Talk about bad karma eh?:eek:

I don't know, Ed. He survived, didn't he? His Karma can't be all bad. I would say that his sense of timing might need to be readadjusted.

[old_pop2000]

This one's pretty weird as well - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet_Jessop

You'd think she'd have learned to stay away from that class of ships.

I read about her life, many years ago. Talk about the fickle finger of fate award, she has to be at the top of the list.

[steel_selachian]

Maybe a jinx - then again, the entire Olympic-class had something of a checkered record. One hits an iceberg and goes down; one hits a mine and goes down; class leader hits an armored cruiser, a U-boat, a possible torpedo, and a lightship and survives to meet the breakers. Go figure.

I don't think the fellow in the article is the same one I read about years before, but there was some guy who caught a train out of Hiroshima right before the blast (I want to say he saw the mushroom cloud from it) and ended up in Nagasaki for the second. Some USAAF crews and Japanese citizens were wondering why Hiroshima and Nagasaki were left untouched by the B-29s in 1945 - the answer became grimly obvious there.

[old_pop2000]

... Some USAAF crews and Japanese citizens were wondering why Hiroshima and Nagasaki were left untouched by the B-29s in 1945 - the answer became grimly obvious there.

Seventeen areas were selected for study as possible bomb targets. On May 28, after careful consideration, bombing of Kyoto, Hiroshima and Kokura was prohibited. The initial test of a working bomb was only three weeks before Hiroshima and there was no inkling, whether Truman would actually allow it. Hiroshima was chosen because of its size and shape that would suit destruction by an atomic bomb and since it had not been bombed, it would give the US assessment teams a good read on the effects of the bomb. It also had a high concentration of troops, military facilities and factories that had not been subjected to significant damage. Another reason was that it was thought to be free of Allied prisoner of war camps.

[asnrobert]

Another reason was that it was thought to be free of Allied prisoner of war camps.

Oops, they were wrong on that count - there were a handful of Allied prisoners at Hiroshima. Weren't they all killed by the bomb?

[old_pop2000]

Oops, they were wrong on that count - there were a handful of Allied prisoners at Hiroshima. Weren't they all killed by the bomb?

There were 23 Allied prisoners in Hiroshima Castle. Five survived the blast, three died at the hands of the Japanese, two others dies of radiation poisoning. They were the remnants of two bomber crews.

[Ed Rotondaro]

I don't know, Ed. He survived, didn't he? His Karma can't be all bad. I would say that his sense of timing might need to be readadjusted.

Dennis:

Good point and apparently his exposure to the radiation hasn't felled him either. You never can tell.