VOSHN 181

<body><a href="../index.html">HOME</a><br><table summary="170"><tr><td class="etesti">170</td><td class="edate">August 9<sup>th</sup>, 1945.  Time was unknown</td><td class="eage">26 years old at that time</td></tr><tr><td class="ei_midasi" colspan=3>They were human flesh that were walking on.</td></tr></table><div class="largep"><p>Many wounded people came over to evacuate.  They were all naked except the one string around their waists.  They had been in thin clothes for the summer.  All of the clothes had been blown off by the blast.  Not only their clothes blown off, but their skins had been peeled and blown off.  Their skins hadn't completely came off and were dangling from their bodies.  It was just like a Furoshiki<sup><span class="red">1</span></sup> that you carry in your hand.  Everyone was coming on bare feet dragging his peeled skins.</p><br><p>Everybody said,</p><p> "It's hot, it's hot.  It is hot everywhere."</p><p>They were walking on the burnt ground in bare feet, so that the skins of their soles got burnt out.  They were walking on their flesh.  It seemed to me that they were not feeling any heat or pains.</p><br><p>On the roadside many bodies were lying with their heads to south.  Some of them kept crawling to come this far after he gave up walking with burnt feet.  I thought that although they were dead, their souls were still walking heading south.</p><br><div class="cap"><span class="red">1</span>) Furoshiki; Furoshiki is a traditional Japanese wrapping cloth.  It is often used to carry things, but many have used it for gift wrapping.</div></div></body>