VOSHN 107

<body><a href="../index.html">HOME</a><br><table summary="101"><tr><td class="etesti">101</td><td class="edate">August 7<sup>th</sup>, 1945</td><td class="eage">28 years old at that time</td></tr><tr><td class="ei_midasi" colspan=3>People were kicking the body of American soldier</td></tr></table><div class="largep"><p>I went through the ruins of a fire in Hiroshima on foot.  The sight of misery on its way was just like a painting of Hell that I could hardly look at.  A streetcar had burned heavily, and on its remaining steel structures, people's bodies, that were burnt, you can't not tell whether they were men or women, they were like skeletons or mummies, hanging on the bars.  At the ruins of the Army Hospital, steel-frames of the beds were in rows.  On every bed a corpse, that was hard to recognize as a human body, was left as it was.  Nobody was emotionally capable of doing something about it.</p><br><p>And then there was a soldier who was obviously an American chained with thick wires, and firmly tied up to a power line pole beside a street.  The corpse of this American soldier<span class="red">*</span> was not burned under the bomb.</p><br><p>Survivors, who looked lifeless with the empty shells of souls, managed to roam around.  How could the war demonize human souls to this extent?  Was that the anger resulting from that their fellows had being killed?  Or was this revenge?</p><p>Those survivors, one after another, kicked the body of the American soldier.  Some of them beat him down.</p><p>It was also the painting of Hell.  I was wondering if this was what human beings would do.  I witnessed this awful scene.</p><br><p>*this American soldier: In late July a B29 bomber was shot down by antiaircraft gun over suburb of Hiroshima.  A few number of American soldiers was taken to hostages and the A-bomb killed all of them.  The soldier was one of them.</p></div></body>