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Mr. Peterson remembers not being able to fathom the destruction done by the atomic bombs dropped on Japan while he was interned.
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When he told us about Nagasaki first of all, you know we, he told us, you know maybe two hundred and fifty thousand people killed with one bomb. We couldn't, couldn't believe it. We didn't, didn't know what, what to think and, or Hiroshima I mean, it was the first one, Nagasaki the second one. And neither one of them we could believe that there was so many people killed with one bomb. And then of course when we heard the, the American warships shelling Japan, and we thought about escaping to, trying to escape, and previous to this of course we'd been told that if the Americans did invade Japan, we'd be put down the mine and the mine would be sealed off and we'd be finished. So, I would say the, the atomic bombs that were dropped were a God send to us. They, I would say they saved our lives they, they, and they brought the war to an end, that much, that much sooner.