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Tree That Survived A-Bomb Sees 70th Christmas

Japanese family kept tree through calamities

By Rob Quinn,  Newser Staff

Posted Dec 22, 2007 1:10 PM CST

(Newser) – A Japanese soldier's Christmas tree has stayed with his family through dark times, and even survived the atomic bomb that killed his brother in Nagasaki. This year marks the 70th Christmas that Warren Nobuaki Iwatake has put up the fragile, three-foot tree, which he calls...   Read full story »

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