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October 24, 2001

 

Photo: Hiroshima Mourners

Hiroshima Mourners, Japan, 1994

Photograph by Jodi Cobb

Mourners gather every August 6 in remembrance of those who died in the bombing of Hiroshima at the end of World War II. Each year new names are added to a list of those who have died since their exposure to the atomic bomb.

 

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