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Tsutomu Yamaguchi

Tsutomu Yamaguchi is not an artist or a member of some obscure indie band. He's actually an engineer and a teacher but what he did do was survive the 2 atomic bombs tragedies in Japan. And not like he wasn't in japan when it happened. Back in 1945, yamaguchi is hanging out in hiroshima, about to head home on the train when he realizes he forgets something back at the office. He goes back, hear's enola gay (the plane, not the song) flying over head and next thing you know, there's a big explosion, the city's on fire and 140,000 japanese people are dead. But not tsutomu. He suffers a few burns and gets bandaged. He than goes to Nagasaki the next day to work, I don't know, you'd think he take a day off or something but he doesn't. But for whatever reason, harry s. truman decides to drop a 2nd atomic bomb and 80,000 more people are dead. But not tsutomu, still standing and probably giving the US the finger. Tsuotmu Yamaguchi is the only official survivor of the two bombings. His only complaint late in life was a little deaf in one ear and his legs were getting weak. Hell, he was 93 years old. Tsutomu Yamaguchi passed away last monday due to stomach cancer.