For decades, Hiroyasu Tagawa had no intention of breaking his silence about his terrible experience as a child of the U.S. atomic bombing of his hometown.He didn't want to relive the memories of Aug. 9, 1945 and its aftermath and even avoided uttering the words "atomic bomb."A sixth-grader at the time, Tagawa spent years regretting taking his father to a temporary first aid station where his feet were amputated with a carpenter's saw on the day of Japan's surrender in World War II.His father had suffered severe burns to his feet when chemicals spilled in a factory as a result of the blast."…READ FULL ARTICLE
