VOSHN 26

<body><a href="../index.html">HOME</a><br><table summary="022"><tr><td class="etesti">022</td><td class="edate">About 30 minutes after the burst on August 6<sup>th</sup>, 1945</td><td class="eage">49 years old at that time</td></tr><tr><td class="ei_midasi" colspan=3>People were half naked and rushing to escape one after another.</td></tr></table><table summary="haikei"><tr><td class="bg" background="../../photo/img126.jpg"><div class="large"><p>I was standing in front of Hiroshima Station, which was totally ruined.  Wondering what kind of bomb they had dropped over us.</p><p>I was looking at people wearing tattered clothes, people bleeding profusely, people whose burnt skin was dangling down from the end of their hands and other people who were swarming from all directions.</p><p>They were all stumbling along with their heads drooped.  I saw women who were half naked and had burnt moppy hair.  I saw girls who were anxious to cover up the tear of their skirts with their hands.  The procession of hundreds of suffering people continued.</p><p>What a terrible sight it was!  It was hell on earth, and I was just stricken.</p></div></td></tr></table></body>