How Did Sachiko Changed After World War II?

During World War II (WWII) several countries including the United States were fighting against Nazi Germany, Japan, and Italy. During the end of the war American B-29 Superfortress had dropped “little boy” in Hiroshima, then later in Nagasaki. Both atomic bombs ruined cities and villages, and many families, leaving people without parents, siblings, grandparents, cousins and aunties and uncles from the explosion alone. Many people suffered even after the explosion like Sachiko’s older brothers and her younger sister. Sachiko’s older brothers had both died of radiation poisoning, some of the radiation from the bombs did not show in people until years later when they were diagnosed with cancer. Sachiko’s younger sister died of leukemia, and her father had died from liver cancer due to the radiation.
After Sachiko had gotten the cancer removed she was not able to talk and barely able to swallow. After Hiroshima, Sachiko’s father taught her about many activists for peace and nonviolence, Sachiko learned about Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr. and she even learned about Helen Keller. As Sachiko started to sink into darkness feeling useless without a voice she remembered all of the words her father would tell her, she even remembered when Helen Keller had visited and spoke to the people even though she had been born blind and deaf she was able to speak her words and Sachiko had a desire to learn how to speak her mind. Sachiko taught herself how to speak again, and realizing the importance of each word she would ever speak. She herself became an activist for peace and nonviolence. Sachiko would go on to share her stories about August 9, 1945 and the side effects that followed, telling them to children, and adults everywhere who were interested to learn about her