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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>  <a href="../e_4/e_disc4_f.html" target="_top">4</a>  <a href="../e_5/e_disc5_f.html" target="_top">5</a>  <span class="gray">6</span>  <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 6</span></span>  [77:00]  Witnesses to Nagasaki from August 10 through August 14, 1945<br><br><table><tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_243_f.html" target="_top">MC17</a></td><td class="emidasi">Before dawn August 10 in the atomic bombing morrow.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_244_f.html" target="_top">227</a></td><td class="emidasi">The sound of insects broke the still of the night.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_245_f.html" target="_top">228</a></td><td class="emidasi">I stare at my hands even now.</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_246_f.html" target="_top">229</a></td><td class="emidasi">A charred body was burning on its feet.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_247_f.html" target="_top">230</a></td><td class="emidasi">They were too weak to eat rice gruel.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_248_f.html" target="_top">231</a></td><td class="emidasi">I set fire to dead bodies, praying for their souls.</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_249_f.html" target="_top">232</a></td><td class="emidasi">He got rid of dead bodies to drink muddy water.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_250_f.html" target="_top">233</a></td><td class="emidasi">Yellow snot, red snot, and blue snot.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_251_f.html" target="_top">234</a></td><td class="emidasi">Humans and animals died at the same place.</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_252_f.html" target="_top">235</a></td><td class="emidasi">A cat was licking the bowels which had broken out of a horse.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_253_f.html" target="_top">236</a></td><td class="emidasi">Why did same Christians do such a thing?</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_254_f.html" target="_top">237</a></td><td class="emidasi">Both newborn baby and mother died.</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_255_f.html" target="_top">238</a></td><td class="emidasi">A baby was dead, with the umbilical cord linking to her mother's womb.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_256_f.html" target="_top">239</a></td><td class="emidasi">It looked like a skinned rabbit.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_257_f.html" target="_top">240</a></td><td class="emidasi">They got burned on the face and back.</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_258_f.html" target="_top">241</a></td><td class="emidasi">My younger brother was burned to death under a fallen house.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_259_f.html" target="_top">242</a></td><td class="emidasi">It got hot, children cried in the fire.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_260_f.html" target="_top">243</a></td><td class="emidasi">I myself committed my son's body to the flames and put his bones into a rice bowl.</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_261_f.html" target="_top">244</a></td><td class="emidasi">Someone's bones are gotten and enshrines.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_262_f.html" target="_top">245</a></td><td class="emidasi">I couldn't find any bones of my family.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_263_f.html" target="_top">246</a></td><td class="emidasi">It would be lucky to die in bed.</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_264_f.html" target="_top">247</a></td><td class="emidasi">There were still fires here and there.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_265_f.html" target="_top">248</a></td><td class="emidasi">Although insects were alive, Masako-chan died.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_266_f.html" target="_top">MC18</a></td><td class="emidasi">Nagasaki on the 14th from August 11.</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_267_f.html" target="_top">249</a></td><td class="emidasi">People opened the bodies' mouths and checked their teeth.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_268_f.html" target="_top">250</a></td><td class="emidasi">' The hell on earth. '</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_269_f.html" target="_top">251</a></td><td class="emidasi">People were calling for water in low voices.</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_270_f.html" target="_top">252</a></td><td class="emidasi">My shortness of breath is a punishment from that day.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_271_f.html" target="_top">253</a></td><td class="emidasi">I killed several people.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_272_f.html" target="_top">254</a></td><td class="emidasi">An unborn baby was coming out of its mother's belly.</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_273_f.html" target="_top">255</a></td><td class="emidasi">I gave up and was going to die there.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_274_f.html" target="_top">256</a></td><td class="emidasi">The corpses remained after four days had passed.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_275_f.html" target="_top">257</a></td><td class="emidasi">I walked and opened the mouths of corpses.</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_276_f.html" target="_top">258</a></td><td class="emidasi">I found the four corpses of my family.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_277_f.html" target="_top">259</a></td><td class="emidasi">A dead fetus protruded from its mother's abdomen.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_278_f.html" target="_top">260</a></td><td class="emidasi">We sprayed light oil on many bodies and burnt them.</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_279_f.html" target="_top">261</a></td><td class="emidasi">Hungry person is allowed to eat this flesh!</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_280_f.html" target="_top">262</a></td><td class="emidasi">I said, "This person is still alive.  Don't burn!"</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_281_f.html" target="_top">263</a></td><td class="emidasi">I pulled out encephalon and intestine from body with the help of a Tobi tool.</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_282_f.html" target="_top">264</a></td><td class="emidasi">Memory of cremation of my students' corpses</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_283_f.html" target="_top">265</a></td><td class="emidasi">We confirmed 6,800 corpses.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_284_f.html" target="_top">266</a></td><td class="emidasi">They dragged corpses as if they were sardines.</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_285_f.html" target="_top">267</a></td><td class="emidasi">Doctor run away leaving the tweezers behind.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_286_f.html" target="_top">268</a></td><td class="emidasi">A station and then field were where I lived. </td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_287_f.html" target="_top">269</a></td><td class="emidasi">I was born to be painter, such a terrible place.</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_288_f.html" target="_top">270</a></td><td class="emidasi">Please cure your illness at your house to take it.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_289_f.html" target="_top">271</a></td><td class="emidasi">It was maybe all a complete lie.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_290_f.html" target="_top">MC19</a></td><td class="emidasi">People who already have known a half day earlier than civic people that the war was going to end.</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_291_f.html" target="_top">272</a></td><td class="emidasi">Nobody slept a wink.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_292_f.html" target="_top">MC20</a></td><td class="emidasi">the same night, at a town of SAGA prefecture.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_293_f.html" target="_top">273</a></td><td class="emidasi">Only one dahlia flower.  A burial service at best.</td></tr></tr></table></body>