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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>  <a href="../e_3/e_disc3_f.html" target="_top">3</a>  <span class="gray">4</span>  <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 4</span></span>  [73:00]  Witnesses to Nagasaki from the evening of August 8 through the early afternoon of August 9, 1945<br><br><table><tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_141_f.html" target="_top">MC09</a></td><td class="emidasi">On the evening of August 8th at the governor's office of Nagasaki.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_142_f.html" target="_top">133</a></td><td class="emidasi">Governor, The new bomb dropped on Hiroshima is awful.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_143_f.html" target="_top">134</a></td><td class="emidasi">The farewell meal was rice balls.</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_144_f.html" target="_top">135</a></td><td class="emidasi">I had dreamt the night before exactly as it happened in Nagasaki.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_145_f.html" target="_top">MC10</a></td><td class="emidasi">On the morning of August 9th, Nagasaki</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_146_f.html" target="_top">136</a></td><td class="emidasi">We were under the extreme stress for the new type of bomb.</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_147_f.html" target="_top">137</a></td><td class="emidasi">My elder son did something he usually didn't before he left for his school.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_148_f.html" target="_top">138</a></td><td class="emidasi">I still cannot forget my seven-year-old-son's back.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_149_f.html" target="_top">139</a></td><td class="emidasi">Can gold letters in the window be kept until autumn?</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_150_f.html" target="_top">140</a></td><td class="emidasi">Three B-29s are heading toward the west.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_151_f.html" target="_top">141</a></td><td class="emidasi">The electricity was suddenly cut off.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_152_f.html" target="_top">MC11</a></td><td class="emidasi">11:02 AM</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_153_f.html" target="_top">142</a></td><td class="emidasi">The round ball pressured on Nagasaki.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_154_f.html" target="_top">143</a></td><td class="emidasi">The red pillar of the flame stood up.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_155_f.html" target="_top">144</a></td><td class="emidasi">The lukewarm wind passed my back.</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_156_f.html" target="_top">145</a></td><td class="emidasi">Heat flash hit me directly from the back.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_157_f.html" target="_top">146</a></td><td class="emidasi">My shoes were burning</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_158_f.html" target="_top">147</a></td><td class="emidasi">The cloud like a demon was looking down.</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_159_f.html" target="_top">148</a></td><td class="emidasi">I found myself only in the camisole.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_160_f.html" target="_top">149</a></td><td class="emidasi">People were dead with their eyes open</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_161_f.html" target="_top">150</a></td><td class="emidasi">My brother's head split in two.</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_162_f.html" target="_top">151</a></td><td class="emidasi">Cicadas shrieked, "Water, water!"</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_163_f.html" target="_top">152</a></td><td class="emidasi">The place had turned to quite another one.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_164_f.html" target="_top">153</a></td><td class="emidasi">The blast pushed my back in waves.</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_165_f.html" target="_top">154</a></td><td class="emidasi">When I came to myself, I was in the boiler house.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_166_f.html" target="_top">155</a></td><td class="emidasi">I mutilated her wrist with a saw.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_167_f.html" target="_top">156</a></td><td class="emidasi">A man was burning alive.</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_168_f.html" target="_top">157</a></td><td class="emidasi">The bloody clouds reflecting the color of the flames.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_169_f.html" target="_top">158</a></td><td class="emidasi">All of them sang the Japanese national anthem "Kimigayo".</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_170_f.html" target="_top">159</a></td><td class="emidasi">I had been paralyzed from the waist down.</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_171_f.html" target="_top">160</a></td><td class="emidasi">I was sleeping surrounded by flowers.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_172_f.html" target="_top">161</a></td><td class="emidasi">Thousands of people were plodding.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_173_f.html" target="_top">162</a></td><td class="emidasi">A woman had her beast cut.  She was sitting and crying.</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_174_f.html" target="_top">163</a></td><td class="emidasi">I was afraid that I had cut his heart.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_175_f.html" target="_top">164</a></td><td class="emidasi">His back was missing, being scooped out.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_176_f.html" target="_top">165</a></td><td class="emidasi">I was machine-gunned.</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_177_f.html" target="_top">166</a></td><td class="emidasi">Namu Taishi Henjou Kongou (One of Buddhist prayers)</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_178_f.html" target="_top">167</a></td><td class="emidasi">I made the sign of the cross to dirty water</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_179_f.html" target="_top">168</a></td><td class="emidasi">He said, "Please lift this roof up."</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_180_f.html" target="_top">169</a></td><td class="emidasi">Nobody gave me helping hands.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_181_f.html" target="_top">170</a></td><td class="emidasi">They were human flesh that were walking on.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_182_f.html" target="_top">171</a></td><td class="emidasi">People came over to evacuated one after another.</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_183_f.html" target="_top">172</a></td><td class="emidasi">I could have given him water.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_184_f.html" target="_top">173</a></td><td class="emidasi">Don't cry, she was lulling her baby.  The baby was headless.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_185_f.html" target="_top">174</a></td><td class="emidasi">Even my soul was blown off.</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_186_f.html" target="_top">175</a></td><td class="emidasi">Get out of this shelter of my family's!</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_187_f.html" target="_top">176</a></td><td class="emidasi">Nagasaki will never recover.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_188_f.html" target="_top">177</a></td><td class="emidasi">I vomited even gastric juices.</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_189_f.html" target="_top">178</a></td><td class="emidasi">Oh, the fire caught the building of the prefectural office.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_190_f.html" target="_top">MC12</a></td><td class="emidasi">About one hour before this time (at the moment of the explosion)</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_191_f.html" target="_top">179</a></td><td class="emidasi">I was an only survivor.</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_192_f.html" target="_top">180</a></td><td class="emidasi">The sun looked bloody red.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_193_f.html" target="_top">181</a></td><td class="emidasi">All the housings as far as I could see were crushed flat.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_194_f.html" target="_top">182</a></td><td class="emidasi">A point-blank shot hit to the ground by me.--- Everywhere was the same.</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_195_f.html" target="_top">183</a></td><td class="emidasi">Your face looks like a monster.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_196_f.html" target="_top">184</a></td><td class="emidasi">Old man's belly was deeply cut.  Window sash pierced into the boy's stomach.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_197_f.html" target="_top">185</a></td><td class="emidasi">This must be the end of the world.</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_198_f.html" target="_top">186</a></td><td class="emidasi">We've found our president, we will have the college headquarters right here.</td></tr></tr></table></body>