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For Elderly, Echoes of World War II Horrors (but much worse)

Emily

Emily

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/15/world/asia/15elderly.html
For Elderly, Echoes of World War II Horrors
By MARTIN FACKLER
Published: March 14, 2011

NATORI, Japan ? Hirosato Wako stared at the ruins of his small fishing hamlet: skeletons of shattered buildings, twisted lengths of corrugated steel, corpses with their hands twisted into claws. Only once before had he seen anything like it: World War II.

"An elderly man was found buried alive in Miyagi Prefecture on Monday. Many of the victims of the tsunami were elderly.

?I lived through the Sendai air raids,? said Mr. Wako, 75, referring to the Allied bombings of the northeast?s largest city. ?But this is much worse.? ...."
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