VOSHN 115

<body><a href="../index.html">HOME</a><br><table summary="107"><tr><td class="etesti">107</td><td class="edate">About August 7<sup>th</sup> - 8<sup>th</sup>, 1945</td><td class="eage">24 years old at that time</td></tr><tr><td class="ei_midasi" colspan=3>I should have let them drink as much as they wanted</td></tr></table><div class="largep"><p>I made my rounds as a soldier in the ruins of Hiroshima city.  People were lying down there and cried to us all at once,</p><p>"Soldier, please give me water...  It's so hot... water, please..."</p><p>Whenever they heard our footsteps, they started crying in great pain,"Water...! Water...!  We wanted to give them water, but we told them instead,</p><br><p>"If you drink water, you'll die.  We absolutely cannot give you water."</p><br><p>People burned raw looked unbearably thirsty.  They died off, murmuring, "Water... water..."</p><p>Now I really regret not having given them any water.  I should have let them drink as much as they liked.</p></div></body>