VOSHN 100

<body><a href="../index.html">HOME</a><br><table summary="094"><tr><td class="etesti">094</td><td class="edate">Before dawn, August 7<sup>th</sup>, 1945</td><td class="eage">31 years old at that time</td></tr><tr><td class="ei_midasi" colspan=3>We dug the riverbank and buried her two daughters</td></tr></table><table summary="haikei"><tr><td class="bg" background="../../photo/img303.jpg"><div class="large"><p>My friend and I found shelter to a riverbank and stayed there the night of August 6<sup>th</sup>.  Before dawn of August 7<sup>th</sup>, she said to me,</p><p>"My daughters, Yukie and Toshiko, have died!  What shall I do, Ms.Miyamae?  I feel very pitiful but can't bring them with me nor escape with them, Can I (am I)?"</p><br><p>I replied after much consideration, "We have no vehicle so that we can't bring them with us."</p><p>The friend said, "So, shall we dig the sand of this riverbank and bury them here for a while?  Afterward, let's come back here and dig them out."</p><p>Then we two cried out loud, and dug the sand of the riverbank and buried the two bodies there.</p><br><p>Even the next morning, this friend and I still felt sorry and did not feel in the mood to leave the place.  She said as she cried,</p><p>"Yukie and Toshiko, forgive me.  I too will go there to you right after."</p><p>Each of us put hands together for prayer and cried out loud.</p><p>In the next morning an American aircraft appeared and machine-gunned fiercely.  A volunteer person came to us and said loudly, "Escape!"  However, we could not walk anymore.</p></div></td></tr></table></body>