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<body><div class="bold">  <a href="../index.html" target="_top">Return to "VOSHN" Home</a>    [ Move to Disc  <a href="../e_1/e_disc1_f.html" target="_top">1</a>  <a href="../e_2/e_disc2_f.html" target="_top">2</a>  <span class="gray">3</span>  <a href="../e_4/e_disc4_f.html" target="_top">4</a>  <a href="../e_5/e_disc5_f.html" target="_top">5</a>  <a href="../e_6/e_disc6_f.html" target="_top">6</a>  <a href="../e_7/e_disc7_f.html" target="_top">7</a>  <a href="../e_8/e_disc8_f.html" target="_top">8</a>  <a href="../e_9/e_disc9_f.html" target="_top">9</a>  ]<br><br></div><span class="large"><span class="orangered">  <strong>VOSHN</strong>  Disc 3</span></span>  [56:00]  Witnesses to Hiroshima from August 7 through August 14, 1945<br><br><table><tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_98_f.html" target="_top">MC06</a></td><td class="emidasi">Daybreak, August 7<sup>th</sup>, 1945 Hiroshima</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_99_f.html" target="_top">093</a></td><td class="emidasi">From upper stream bodies drifted and hit the oar of the boat</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_100_f.html" target="_top">094</a></td><td class="emidasi">We dug the riverbank and buried her two daughters</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_101_f.html" target="_top">095</a></td><td class="emidasi">My family of four was burnt to death under our collapsed house</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_102_f.html" target="_top">096</a></td><td class="emidasi">Only abdomen or hip remained unburned</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_103_f.html" target="_top">097</a></td><td class="emidasi">Do you have a hand mirror?  "Yes, I do."</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_104_f.html" target="_top">098</a></td><td class="emidasi">I was lost even to step on corpses</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_105_f.html" target="_top">099</a></td><td class="emidasi">Beautiful white bones are scattered</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_106_f.html" target="_top">100</a></td><td class="emidasi">On the Aioi Bridge there was the body of a little child</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_107_f.html" target="_top">101</a></td><td class="emidasi">People were kicking the body of American soldier</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_108_f.html" target="_top">102</a></td><td class="emidasi">A baby was sucking his dead mother's breast</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_109_f.html" target="_top">103</a></td><td class="emidasi">Soldiers dealt with dead bodies as rubbish</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_110_f.html" target="_top">MC07</a></td><td class="emidasi">The afternoon of August 7<sup>th</sup></td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_111_f.html" target="_top">104</a></td><td class="emidasi">The enemy used a new type of bomb</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_112_f.html" target="_top">MC08</a></td><td class="emidasi">Hiroshima for one week after August 8<sup>th</sup>, 1945</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_113_f.html" target="_top">105</a></td><td class="emidasi">We strode over bodies</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_114_f.html" target="_top">106</a></td><td class="emidasi">I was lucky not to have been in such a terrible bombing</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_115_f.html" target="_top">107</a></td><td class="emidasi">I should have let them drink as much as they wanted</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_116_f.html" target="_top">108</a></td><td class="emidasi">I had no choice but to say, "Yes"</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_117_f.html" target="_top">109</a></td><td class="emidasi">He would rather not see us</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_118_f.html" target="_top">110</a></td><td class="emidasi">Gas bubbled out of the bodies</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_119_f.html" target="_top">111</a></td><td class="emidasi">A man was pulling out a gold tooth from a body</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_120_f.html" target="_top">112</a></td><td class="emidasi">A man stripped the straw mat off me, then sold it to another person</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_121_f.html" target="_top">113</a></td><td class="emidasi">All my family is dying</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_122_f.html" target="_top">114</a></td><td class="emidasi">Possibly my husband might come out from behind the Atomic Bomb Memorial Dome</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_123_f.html" target="_top">115</a></td><td class="emidasi">People were shouting, "XXX!  Where are you?"</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_124_f.html" target="_top">116</a></td><td class="emidasi">Only the black letters on paper were burned</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_125_f.html" target="_top">117</a></td><td class="emidasi">I struck the dead bodies' eye sockets with a fire fighter's rake and dragged them along</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_126_f.html" target="_top">118</a></td><td class="emidasi">We stuffed up a cave with about 50 dead bodies and closed the entrance.</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_127_f.html" target="_top">119</a></td><td class="emidasi">I stuck a dead body with a hook and dragged it.</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_128_f.html" target="_top">120</a></td><td class="emidasi">This man is still alive.  Leave it aside</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_129_f.html" target="_top">121</a></td><td class="emidasi">I was more afraid of the Living than the Dead.</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_130_f.html" target="_top">122</a></td><td class="emidasi">We wrote only their estimated ages and sex</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_131_f.html" target="_top">123</a></td><td class="emidasi">Children play counting</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_132_f.html" target="_top">124</a></td><td class="emidasi">As if dead bodies burned dead.</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_133_f.html" target="_top">125</a></td><td class="emidasi">Gray objects.</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_134_f.html" target="_top">126</a></td><td class="emidasi">It was a tiny thing that my skin was dangling on my arms.</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_135_f.html" target="_top">127</a></td><td class="emidasi">Like old ragged futons that were drenched with oil.</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_136_f.html" target="_top">128</a></td><td class="emidasi">People who died in no time were happier than those who did not!</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_137_f.html" target="_top">129</a></td><td class="emidasi">Children died singing a war song</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_138_f.html" target="_top">130</a></td><td class="emidasi">Would this case possibly be caused by radioactivity?</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_139_f.html" target="_top">131</a></td><td class="emidasi">I did not feel scared even when I saw so many corpses.</td></tr><tr><td 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