Dianavan,

Sorry to hear about your brother. However, without knowing more, it seems a little far-fetched to suggest that every person who was in the pacific in late 1945 and who subsequently had a stillborn child was affected by the bombs. People in the armed forces would have handled toxic substances almost every day and, of course, stillbirths occur in nature. Not that that would have been any consolation to your poor parents.

I don't want to decry your family's experience but I wonder if it is really helpful to be seen to be claiming that one's family may have been victims when we already have such hard information on those who most definitely were.

Once again, sorry about your brother.