VOSHN 293

<body><a href="../index.html">HOME</a><br><table summary="273"><tr><td class="etesti">273</td><td class="edate">August 10<sup>th</sup>, 1945.  Midnight</td><td class="eage">16 years old at that time</td></tr><tr><td class="ei_midasi" colspan=3>Only one dahlia flower.  A burial service at best.</td></tr></table><div class="large"><p>From around the 14th in the middle of the night of midnight, the injured all fell into a critical condition and I thought my younger sister died first in the night.  She breathed her last breath.  And while I bustled about, I noticed a baby died, and then, its ankle said: "Please care of babies or kids" and died just after I gave him a ringer injection.  So from the night of the 14th till the morning of the 15th, the injured all died in rapid succession at the same time.</p><br><p>After that, though it might be rules of the law to keep them as what they were one day, but we had to go elsewhere, the director of a hospital made arrangements.  He prepared for a cremation quickly.  We could lay dead bodies in coffins by noon during the day.</p><br><p>At the day they died, a dahlia flower was blooming beautifully in the middle of the summer.  I took the dahlia and put it on the body silently.  I placed it in a coffin.  Well, I meant it was a burial service at best, yes.</p><br><p>And we cremated all together.  Then the head nurse came to the hospital once, and went to here when they were burned to ashes.  At that time the war had ended.  The radio broadcast of the war end?  She said: "there are the Emperor broadcasts" of something.</p><br><p>"--Gyokuon (the Emperor speaking) broadcasting--"</p><br><p><span class="small">The radio broadcast in which the Japanese emperor Hirohito read out the Imperial Rescript on the termination of the war.  This speech was broadcast at noon on August 15, 1945 (JST).</span></p></div></body>