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Less than a mile and a half from the center of the blast, Mori was thrown into a nearby stream that protected him from the firestorm that followed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI found myself inside the mushroom cloud,\u201d Mori would later write. \u201cIt was so dark that when I held my hands up about 10 centimeters in front of my face, I couldn\u2019t see them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the ensuing days, Mori scavenged for food and water <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/05\/28\/world\/asia\/hiroshima-obama-visit-shigeaki-mori.html\" rel=\"\">but only found piles of charred bodies instead<\/a>. When he did find water, it was poisoned with radiation. Unknowingly, Mori drank it anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a young man, Mori worked at a brokerage house and, later, at a piano manufacturer. \u201cBut I\u2019d always wanted to be a historian,\u201d he told The New York Times in 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And so the budding historian began spending his weekends researching the aftermath of the Aug. 6, 1945, bombing. Mori conducted his own interviews with survivors, double-checking official histories with contemporary newspaper reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere were so many mistakes in the histories,\u201d he told the Times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One interview with a local university professor, however, set Mori on a decades-long quest. The professor had found a list of names in a government archive and, not sure what to do with them, handed them off to Mori. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The list contained the names of 12 American airmen who had been shot down over the area on July 28, 1945. They had been killed alongside the Japanese when their fellow Americans had dropped the bomb. Their deaths had gone unrecognized, with both governments keeping quiet about their presence in the city. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhen I first learned of the American victims, I realized that none of them had been officially recognized as a victim of the atomic bomb. It was shocking to me,\u201d Mori told Stars and Stripes in 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It took him three years before he found anyone connected to the Americans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eventually, in the 1970s, declassified American documents backed up his findings. 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The pair\u2019s subsequent embrace at the memorial grounds gained international attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMy ultimate hope is to send out a message that war deprives people of everything,\u201d Mori told Stars and Stripes in 2008. \u201cWe should never repeat the mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shigeaki Mori, an atomic bomb survivor, spent decades researching the forgotten American prisoners of war killed in the Hiroshima 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