|
|
Article: Local A-bomb survivors aid medical science
- Article from:
- Daily Breeze
- Article date:
- September 19, 2009
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright 2009 Daily Breeze. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
|
She's had more than 60 years to figure out why she survived and
so many others died. But Helen Fukino still has no easy answer.
"I was just lucky," she said. "I was a mile away. Everybody in my
neighborhood was dead."
Fukino was a teenager when an atomic bomb leveled her hometown of
Hiroshima, Japan, and killed more than 140,000 people.
On Saturday, she joined about 130 other lucky survivors of the
atomic blasts at Hiroshima and Nagasaki for what has become a ritual
in their lives.
They were poked and prodded and examined by doctors at Providence
Little Company of Mary Medical Center in Torrance so they could
learn the long-term effects of radiation on the human body.
The testing started ...