<P> After the war, Lewis became a pilot for American Overseas Airlines, specializing in the New York to London routes . He left in 1947 to rejoin his prewar employer, the Henry Heide Candy Company, where he became plant manager and personnel director of their factory in New Brunswick, New Jersey . He was granted at least three patents during his time at Heide . In the 1950s, Lewis lived with his family in a home that he had built in Old Tappan, New Jersey . He and his wife had a daughter and four sons . </P> <P> In New York City in 1951, Lewis met Hiroshima survivor Father Hubert Schiffer, who was eight blocks from ground zero when the explosion occurred and was seriously injured . Schiffer invited Lewis to visit Hiroshima in August 1952 for the dedication of a "palace of prayer", which Lewis accepted; however, there is no record of Lewis actually making such a visit . The two also appeared together at Fordham University in 1957, on the twelfth anniversary of the bombing, with Schiffer noting that they had become "very fast friends ." </P> <P> In 1955, Lewis appeared on the television show This is Your Life, in an episode not without controversy . The show had as its guest Reverend Kiyoshi Tanimoto, who had been living in Hiroshima at the time of the bombing and survived the explosion, as recounted in John Hersey's 1946 book Hiroshima . Tanimoto had traveled to the United States with the Hiroshima Maidens to get reconstructive surgery for them, and while there was the subject of the May 11 episode of This Is Your Life . After some acquaintances were introduced and interviewed, a surprise for Tanimoto was meeting Lewis--on live television broadcast to a nationwide audience--representing the crew of the aircraft that had so dramatically changed his life . Contemporary reaction to the episode was mixed, ranging from "one of (the) best" to a "new low in poor taste ." Lewis described the Enola Gay's flight and the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima . When asked by host Ralph Edwards if he remembered his reaction on that fateful day, he remarked, "I wrote down later,' My God, what have we done?"' </P> <P> Lewis became a self - taught stone sculptor, working in marble and alabaster, following a business trip to Florence where he saw some apprentices at work . One of his sculptures, titled' God's Wind' at Hiroshima?, depicted a mushroom cloud . In the 1970s, Lewis lived in a small cottage on West Shore Trail in the quiet Lake Mohawk community of Sparta, New Jersey . </P>

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