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Bay Area Hiroshima survivors reflect on atomic bombing

ByJonathan Bloom KGO logo
Saturday, May 28, 2016
Bay Area Hiroshima survivors reflect on atomic bombing

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- In San Francisco, American World War II veterans are getting ready to remember the fallen, while those at the largest and one of the oldest Japantowns in the United States reflect on Hiroshima.

Watch ABC7 News reporter Jonathan Bloom's story above.

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