Incredibly good luck, True Story Options

[KingByng]

So it's August 6, 1945. Tsutomu Yamaguchi is on a business trip to Hiroshima. He suffers serious burns after the city gets nuked. Spends a day there getting treated, and returns home to Nagasaki right before Nagasaki is nuked.

Now at age 93, Tsutomu Yamaguchi has been listed by the Japanese government as the only known person to survive both nuclear bombings.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7963581.stm


He's either incredibly lucky, or incredibly unlucky. All he suffered were burns. No cancer or anything.

This post has been edited by Yaraday: Mar 27 2009, 08:26 PM

[Scorch]

He's a very lucky man.

War is a horrible thing... He's very lucky to have survived.

[Nod Strike]

War is a horrible thing...

Aren't you applying for the USAF or something?

[Corsair]

He can easily be in a non-combat role in the USAF, far away from any real fighting. Plus, just because your a soldier doesn't mean you have to be a gung-ho G.I. Joe

For Marines on the otherhand, it's a requirement

This post has been edited by Corsair: Mar 27 2009, 07:19 PM

[Scorch]

Aren't you applying for the USAF or something?

Yeah.

War is a horrible thing, although a necessary part of life. Plus, the military is a family tradition.

[Team Black]

random fact of the day. Still, pretty interesting

[Crimsonum]

War is not a necessity. If only any country would stop producing or purchasing weapons, it might convince neighbouring countries to do the same thing. Next would be the continent, and eventually, whole world?

Inb4 "UTOPIA!?"

[Scorch]

Problem with that is... You have people like the terrorists out there. Dropping a weapon is one thing they would never do.

[Corsair]

There's always someone out there who wants to pick a fight; some Alexander III, Cyrus II, Napoleon, or Hitler who thinks they have what it takes. Some treated their conquered better than others but that's not exactly something the conquered knew about prior. Sounds like a plan though, let's throw down our weapons and take a chance.

By the way, genocide doesn't require a gun and it can be sparked by serious matters... like a comic picture in the daily newspaper. Before you know it coup d'etat!

This post has been edited by Corsair: May 14 2009, 07:27 AM

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[KingByng]

War is not a necessity. If only any country would stop producing or purchasing weapons, it might convince neighbouring countries to do the same thing. Next would be the continent, and eventually, whole world?

Inb4 "UTOPIA!?"

A nation without a military will soon cease to exist. The few exceptions have a gigantic military power protecting them (Andorra by France, Palau by the United States, etc).

Hate it all you want, but we're an extremely violent, sadistic race of creatures.