2005-08-10 04:00:00 PDT Nagasaki, Japan -- Tucked in the far
corner of Nagasaki Peace Park sits a small monument next to a
memorial featuring a streetcar platform ruined by the atomic
bomb. The simple marker is easy to miss, a lonely tribute to the
non-Japanese survivors of atomic destruction. Their numbers are
unknown, and their struggle for recognition and financial
assistance continues six decades later. A 1,000-man camp in
Nagasaki is believed to have been destroyed when the bomb fell
60 years ago Tuesday. A group of U.S. prisoners of war, among
tens of thousands of POWs in Japan in 1945, lost a U.S. court
battle for reparations two years ago. Lester Tenney, a former
soldier who now lives in La Jolla (San Diego County), saw the
mushroom cloud rise over Nagasaki from the prison where he was
being held 32 miles away. "We have never, never received
anything from the Japanese in any way," says Tenney, who
suffered a broken back, shoulder, nose, foot, hand and a skull
fracture while in captivity. He was freed