VOSHN 56

<body><a href="../index.html">HOME</a><br><table summary="051"><tr><td class="etesti">051</td><td class="edate">Around noon on August 6<sup>th</sup>, 1945</td><td class="eage">16 years old at that time</td></tr><tr><td class="ei_midasi" colspan=3>I will soon be with you.</td></tr></table><table summary="haikei"><tr><td class="bg" background="../../photo/img156.jpg"><div class="large"><p>I rushed to our house and found my mother was trapped in the rubble of the house."  Where is the fire department?  Why the army doesn't come to help us?  I can feel the fire is coming near!" she yelled.</p><br><p>I said to her, "Mother, I will soon die on battlefield and be with you.  So please go first and wait for me."  My mother replied to me "Take care of your younger sister."  Then she started uttering the "<i>Hannya Shingyo</i>" prayer (the most popular Buddhist prayer among the Japanese).  Listening to her prayer, I...</p></div></td></tr></table></body>