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<body><a href="../index.html">HOME</a><br><table summary="116"><tr><td class="etesti">116</td><td class="edate">Before August 15<sup>th</sup>, 1945</td><td class="eage">30 years old at that time</td></tr><tr><td class="ei_midasi" colspan=3>Only the black letters on paper were burned</td></tr></table><div class="largep"><p>I walked the ruins of fires.  I saw white papers saying "In Mourning" on the front doors here and there.  It means someone of their family has passed away recently.  This is a custom of Buddhism.</p><p>Heat rays of the Atomic Bomb burned only the letters, "In Mourning," written in the black ink on the white papers.  White parts of the paper remained unburned.</p><br><p>As a child, I played using a sheet of paper and a lens.  The sunlight converged through the lens burned the black parts of the paper.  The same thing happened when the Atomic Bomb exploded.</p></div></body>