One day at Tomoji’s school, everything changed. During a break in the all-school sports day, the children in Tomoji’s class were sitting with their parents in a circle on the ground eating lunch together, when some of the children began staring at Yoshida. One boy called out to Tomoji, “Tomo-chan! Your father has an awful face, huh!” Oh, my God! Yoshida thought. It would have been better if I hadn’t come! But this time, Tomoji spoke up for his father. “My daddy was hurt by the atomic bomb,” he told his friend. “It’s nothing scary!” “I felt so grateful to my son,” Yoshida recalled, recounting
...more
