A Hiroshima Story
When Hiroshima was attacked with an atomic bomb in the summer of 1945, a teenage school girl was saved by luck in a whole skin behind a concrete wall.
Though she felt sometimes a sick, her survival was a kind of miracles for someone having suffered an atomic bomb attack within a mile of its hypocenter.
In those days, as most of young men went into military service, school girls were mobilized to working in various social sectors.
The girl was rendering s service as a conductor of a tramcar of Hiroshima City.
One day before the atomic bomb attack, in a meeting of those girls working for tramcar systems, a male manager scolded some other girls for having picked and eaten peaches from trees in someone's orchard.
The girl in question, however, got envious of those illegal peach pickers, though she did not like to be reproved so hard. Food situations were indeed so bad at that time, while a rationing system was enforced.
Therefore, after the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima, she was very unhappy even for that reason alone, though she was wholly saved and very busy helping other victims of the huge, destructive bomb.
And, when the war ended on August 15, those girls working for tramcar systems gathered and decided to put an end to their lives as their beloved Empire was going to be ruined. However, as they saw a tramcar still running in the city of debris for its dear life, they changed their minds and decided to continue to help other victims.
Yet, she could not be unhappier in those days. Her mind became wild.
However, as an angel expected, one day in a refugee center, a wounded man gave her a peach.
She took it and enjoyed the taste, which in that instant healed her mind and heart.
Thereafter, she has been living a long and peaceful life even to this day, according to The Yomiuri Shimbun Newspaper.
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Japan also recovered from devastation like the teenage school girl in Hiroshima in 1945.
But, after WWII, how God gave a peach to Japan is still unknown.
God kindly gives a peach to a good girl. All the more, He would probably give a peach to any war-torn countries such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, and Israel.
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Anyway, take a peach once in a while in commemoration of a recovery of one sweet heart in Hiroshima in 1945.
"ONCE AGAIN THEY WILL LIVE UNDER MY PROTECTION"