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Still in the World | Those Two Days | Suffering and Anger | Live in Struggle |
Those Two days | ||
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(8)A-Bomb Dropped on Human Beings It was a blinding flash. Everything around me turned sheer-white. The ring of light, like a halo around the moon shone and spread like a rainbow. The next moment, a big column of flame reached up to the sky and detonated like a volcanic explosion in the air. It was a sight no words can describe. At the point of explosion, the fireball generated air pressure tens of thousands times normal and the temperature reached millions of degrees Celsius. In one second, the fireball swelled 230 meters in radius. It continued to shine for about 10 seconds, releasing intense shock waves and heat rays. In an instant, two cities and so many lives were no more. Photo: the Japan Peace Museum |
(9)Sea of Flames A bright flash
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(10) Finder Fogged with Tears I returned to Miyuki Bridge
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(11)Hell Peeled skin was dangling like seaweed from their arms A-bomb Peace Memorial Museum, Hiroshima |
(12)Leaving Mother's Voice Behind Me As I Flee My house collapsed instantly Hiroshima |
(13)Black Rain My cousin suffered no injuries nor burns because he was in the basement of a bank. He walked through the black rain and finally came home in the evening. He and his family members rejoiced at his safe return, saying, "You are fortunate." One month later, he had high fever. His hair fell out. Near Koi, Hiroshima |
(14)"Kill me!" On the streets of Nagasaki City, a 16-year-old postman was delivering
telegrams by bicycle. Mr. Sumiteru Taniguchi, Nagasaki |
(15)River People jumped into the river one after another. West End of Sakae Bridge, Hiroshima |
(16)In Search of Water There are three or four people piled on top of each other in a water tank in search of water. Others are injured and left for dead in collapsed houses. I was unbearably thirsty. Temma-cho, Hiroshima |
(17)Reaching Out The dead bodies were all placed with the heads facing toward the hospital,
either on their backs or stomachs...Even at the hospital gate itself and
a few steps inside of it, I saw the dead with their hands stretched outward.
I realized that death had taken these miserable figures as they lay struggling
to grasp the hand of hope, the hand of a doctor who might be able to save
them. I could feel their souls full of regret and resentment burning like
an unbearable summer heat. In front of the Red Cross Hospital, Hiroshima |
(18)The Blast A boy with part of his brain projected from his head, cracked open by
a flying brick Matuyama-cho, Nagasaki |
(19)Emptiness My mother's head and legs were charred and her body was half-burned. Ms. Chieko Ryu, Nagasaki |
(20)Going Mad Not even knowing her child had no head, a mother run away like a mad person. "Where should I burn my dead child?" A heavily injured military officer with his eyes popping out suddenly raised himself, drew his sword and ran shouting, "Charge!" He fell off from a cliff and died. Hiroshima |