Michas Ohnstad and Archie Moczygemba were 19 and 18 years old, respectively, when they first stepped foot on Japanese soil. For both of them, it looked like the world was on fire. And it was.

They were just two of the 67,000 American soldiers and Marines to witness the aftermath of the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Today, there are fewer than a handful of “atomic veterans” still living, and the memories of the subsequent historic and horrifying days following the dropping of the bombs will soon be forever lost.

Two friends, however, Karin Tanabe and Victoria Kelly, are working to make the surviving voices heard.

Their documentary “ Atomic Echoes ” follows the pair and their disparate stories that lead back to August 1945.

Tanabe recounted that her father’s first memory

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