The bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the worst moments in the history of humankind which will remain as scratches on our minds for a very long time. The people of these cities however, bore the scratches and moved on so rapidly, that it all seems almost surreal. These pictures, clicked just a few months after the brutal bombings, tell us about the course that the people of Hiroshima followed to restore their faith in themselves and how they built back the city working as a fraternity!
These Photos of Hiroshima Just After The Bombings Will Break Your Heart
By
Sughra Hafeez in
History
On 2nd September 2015
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#1 They had come to realize that they couldn't stop. Read more at: http://tr.im/wpUf3
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#2 The bombing sure destroyed the order of life in Hiroshima.
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#3 The devastation was unprecedented.
#4 Lives of a generation were grappled with a very peculiar fear constantly poking their backs.
#5 The barren lands, cleared of all human interventions were a depressing sight.
#6 But nothing could stop the citizens of Hiroshima from smiling and fighting their way through it.
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#7 And the Japanese built back everything that the monstrous bombs had taken away from them, one by one.
#8 They tried restoring their lives and order about the city in their own ways.
#9 But nothing could stop the citizens of Hiroshima from smiling and fighting their way through it.
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#10 Classrooms in schools ran regardless of all the odds.
#11 The city of Hiroshima was literally put back together.
#12 The children learnt and worked, all at the same time.
#13 The city began raising it's head again.
#14 And molded yet another generation, ready to leap from the ashes, like their beloved Phoenix.
