My Experience as a victim of the atomic bombing (4)

　
I am now very thankful for the fact that I am still alive. I could have died long time ago but it is nothing less than miraculous that I am surviving somehow. Having gone through all the agonies of life, I came to enjoy peace of mind by believing in Jesus Christ. I just hope that I will be able to continue to do things desirable according to the teaching of Christ until my second life is exhausted.

Why do atomic bomb victims have to talk about their experiences now? Why do people have to listen to them? I would like to close my narrative by presenting my answers to those questions.

Hiroshima is the first atomic-bombed city in the world. No other place than Hiroshima should suffer from the tragic history of atomic bombing. We do not want another Hiroshima anywhere in the world. While there are such slogans as denuclearization of the world or the 21st century free of nuclear weapons, I believe that world peace is everyones peace. To achieve peace, people in the world should be informed of horrible nature of nuclear weapons and awfulness of atomic holocaust. We the survivors of the atomic bombing, as well as the citizens of Hiroshima, have some advantage in performing such mission.

Hiroshima and the atomic bomb are so closely connected each other and inseparable and so is the relation between the citizens of Hiroshima and the history of atomic bomb sufferings. Citizens of Hiroshima, no matter where they go in the world, would be asked about the atomic bombing. I would like to urge everyone (in Hiroshima) to gain better knowledge about the atomic bombing and talk about it, even if he or she is not a victim of the bombing.

From August 1998 through October 2002, I taught the doctrine of Christianity and ancient Greek at a Bulgarian reformist seminary in Sophia, Bulgaria. Bulgaria is one of the neighboring countries of Yugoslavia; the border was only 45 minutes away by car and you could reach Kosovo within 1.5 hours by car. Since from March 1999, every time the situation in Kosovo got worse, I heard Bulgarian people talk about the wars when they get together. My students used to ask me to talk about my experience of atomic bombing. Since May 2004, I have been teaching the doctrine of Christianity at Immanuel Bible College in Budplus (?) of South Africa. There too, at the students requests for my story about atomic bomb experience, I talked about the terrible facts regarding the damage caused by the atomic bomb as well as the horrors of war.
　
I feel so sorry to hear about the nuclear tests recently conducted by the North Korea.

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