nd unraveled. Miss Sasaki was knocked unconscious when her bookcase, due to the impact of the blast, trampled her to the ground. She lay trapped, as the bookcase had fallen on and crushed her leg, leaving her crippled. In the years to follow, she learns to overcome this disability and enters a house of Catholic nuns. She spends a great deal of her life aiding orphaned children. Dr. Fujii was thrown like a rag doll into the nearby river, surviving with only two pieces of wood holding his head above water level. Although he later centers things on himself, he is not completely unsympathetic to those around him. His once erect hospital stood in ruins, but he eventually recovered both his health and fortune, continuing to live comfortably as a doctor. Mrs. Nakamura was trapped under the debris of her household items, virtually scratchless. She at once began searching for her daughter, the youngest of three, whose screams she heard audibly. No signs are given that her other two children, a son and a daughter, are alive, but she finds them amongst the rubble. She suffers mildly from the effects of the radiation, but is constant in helping others even through the worst, leaving her four decades later a still-active citizen. Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge fell to the ground, thinking the bomb had fallen directly on him, ending up dazed and in his vegetable garden. His immediate actions are to help the wounded, though he has no realization of what actually occurred. He incurs only small cuts in the blast, but suffers devitalizing effects of the radiation. After several more years, he seeks Japanese citizenship and adopts the Japanese name of Fr. Makoto Takakura. Dr. Sasaki, bent at time of impact, was not hurt. In fact, he remained the only uninjured doctor in the hospital. He went long periods of time without sleep, and without his own glasses, in order to give ample attention to the bombardment of injured fleeing to his hospital. He treats thousand...
