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- Summary: Nez Perce elder Horace Axtell reflects on witnessing the devasation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
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Review of Reflections on Nagasaki by a Nez Perce Elder
Emon Hassan
Posted on August 05, 2005 at 07:27 AM
It is one thing to read accounts of the past, but to actually hear someone's voice while he remembers vivid details about Nagasaki is another. This piece is a great example of talking history. It is about a first person experience of the sight, sound and smell of a city as it lay dying.