VOSHN 162

<body><a href="../index.html">HOME</a><br><table summary="151"><tr><td class="etesti">151</td><td class="edate">August 9th, 1945.  Immediately after the explosion</td><td class="eage">12 years old at that time</td></tr><tr><td class="ei_midasi" colspan=3>Cicadas shrieked, "Water, water!"</td></tr></table><table summary="haikei"><tr><td class="bg" background="../../photo/img158.jpg"><div class="large"><p>I entered the shelter and looked for my brother.  He wasn't there, and I went out.  Then my friend, Kyoko-chan, called me,</p><p> "Mi-chan, Mi-chan."</p><p>I asked her, "Who are you?"</p><p>She answered,</p><p> "It's me, Kyoko!"</p><br><p>She came closer to me and said,</p><p> "Mi-chan, water, water, please."</p><p>At that time I wasn't in a condition to give her any water.  I looked at her.  Her body was burnt all black!  She' had no hair!  Only a piece of rubber-string of her panty was left on her body.</p><p>All her skins were burnt black!  I don't mean she had blisters or all her skins got peeled off, but merely she blackened all over.  I think she got badly burned.  Even now her voice is ringing in my ears,</p><p> "Water, water!"</p><br><p>Later on I planted cherry trees at my backyard.  They grew very tall.  In summer times, cicadas flew over and cried at the trees.  Their chirrs sounded to me like,</p><p> "Water, water, water," "Water, water, give me water, please!"</p><p>Cicadas' chirrs sounded like her painful groans of that time.  Cicadas were shrieking.</p><p>I asked somebody to cut down all the cherry trees.</p></div></td></tr></table></body>