Hiroshima ¨C Standing at the front of a dimly lit room in the basement of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, Teruko Yahata¡¯s voice broke as she recalled the morning her world changed, on Aug. 6, 1945.
¡°All of a sudden, the entire sky flashed and was illuminated in bluish-white, as if the heavens had become one huge, fluorescent light,¡± the 85-year-old, speaking in English, told an audience of British tourists on May 9.
¡°I immediately fell to the ground and lost consciousness.¡±
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