Connection Across Time

The above image depicts Tsutomu Yamaguchi, the only known survivor of both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. Yamaguchi, an engineer working in Hiroshima at the time of the first bombing, suffered terrible burns, only to return to Nagasaki a few days later to experience the second bombing. Yamaguchi is the only known person to survive both bombings and in my eyes is perhaps one of the luckiest people in history. A few months ago, however, Yamaguchi died of stomach cancer. In the months and years before his death, Yamaguchi became a very vocal person against nuclear disarmament.