Article: Filmmaker's `tiny woman' describes massive disaster.(General News)(The bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, is the subject of a film to be shown in Eugene)

Byline: Susan Palmer The Register-Guard

The little girl had a chore, in the way that children do in impoverished and war-ravaged cities.

Each day she went to the bay, where the incoming tide brought fish. She and the other children dropped in a net to pull fish from the water. And day after day the fish were scarce, but the net came up full.

It was full of bones, the bones of people.

The little girl, Sakue Shimohira, lived in Nagasaki, Japan. She was 10 years old on Aug. 9, 1945, when the United States dropped a plutonium bomb that leveled the industrial port city and snuffed out the lives of 70,000 people.

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