VOSHN 12

<body><a href="../index.html">HOME</a><br><table summary="009"><tr><td class="etesti">009</td><td class="edate">Just before the bombing on August 6<sup>th</sup>, 1945</td><td class="eage">29 years old at that time</td></tr><tr><td class="ei_midasi" colspan=3>I left the place and escaped death.</td></tr></table><div class="largep"><p>Before the atomic bomb was dropped, I had been waiting for my friend at the foot of the Aioi Bridge for twenty or thirty minutes.</p><p>It was very hot.  Some people past by pulling their large carts.  Some carriages went past with people riding on them.  Oh, have you seen a carriage?  You know, a vehicle pulled by a horse?</p><br><p>I had said to my friend, "I'll come to the Aioi Bridge by seven-thirty or eight o'clock, so wait for me there, please."  I arrived there around eight o'clock but I didn't find her.  After waiting for her for twenty or thirty minutes, I thought she would never come, so I left the place.  It was right for me to leave the place.  Thanks to God, I escaped death.</p><p>It was really hot: the sun was blazing down.</p></div></body>