Nagasaki Woman

This account begins with recollections of early childhood in pre-war Japan and festive activities shared with her adoptive mother.<br><br> Her teenage years fell under the shadow of war. A young soldier with whom she had a budding romance did not return from the fighting. She gives a harrowing account of her survival of the Atomic Bomb attack on Nagasaki.<br><br> A chance encounter with the U.S. Marines in late 1945 led to her employment by the Occupation Forces. In 1953 she married a career army soldier and became an Army Wife in tours of duty in Germany the United States and Puerto Rico.<br><br> A return visit to Nagasaki in 1995 brought back a flood of memories of her childhood visit to the Okunchi Festival (Dragon Dance)