Pāhonoa te oro

The countryside rolled by, but nothing felt real, because how do you process the destruction of an entire city? How do you explain something no one has ever seen before? When he finally arrived in Nagasaki, his family was stunned. His wife, Hisako, barely recognized him. Burns wrapped his body. His face was swollen. His clothes torn. Yet beneath all of it, he was alive. That alone felt miraculous. For a brief moment, he believed the nightmare was over. He had survived the impossible. He was home