August 6 marks the 72nd anniversary of the dropping of the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. It’s a day Jack Dairiki, Cal ’58, remembers well because he was there. He was 14 years old. “My schoolmates and I were lined up in the courtyard for roll call when I saw three airplanes in the air, and I recognized the familiar sound of B-29s,” he said. “I thought, ‘Enemy aircraft but th
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