RE: Victims

["Strickert, Rick" <rstrickert@signaturescience.com>]

Tom asked:



	"Of the additional 'victims' that passed away (86870),

	did not anyone die of a heart attack?  Or if they died

	from cancer - how can they attribute the bomb as a

	cause?"



The Hiroshima announcement also stated:



	"The 50-minute ceremony started at 8 a.m. with Akiba and two 

	representatives of A-bomb victims' family put two books under an arch-

	shaped cenotaph in the park which list names of 4,977 people newly 

	recognized as A-bomb victims by the city government since Aug. 6 last 

	year."



People who are recognized as A-bomb victims (suffering from some A-bomb-related condition) are eligible for medical assistance.  There are cases of people still applying for status as "A-bomb victim" in the past decade. A news article from 1998 (http://www.chugoku-np.co.jp/weekly/1998/980731.html) notes:



	"Ms. Asa Takii, who resides at the Tachibana-En in Kurahashi-cho,

	recently became the oldest person in Japan. Now she is making

	preparations to apply for certification as an atomic bomb victim. 

	Ms. Takii, who is 114, was 61 years old at the time of the atomic 

	bombing."





Rick Strickert

Austin, TX



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