VOSHN 303

<body><a href="../index.html">HOME</a><br><table summary="282"><tr><td class="etesti">282</td><td class="edate">August 15<sup>th</sup>, 1945.</td><td class="eage">I thought I might be able to go home.</td></tr><tr><td class="ei_midasi" colspan=3>24 years old at that time</td></tr></table><table summary="haikei"><tr><td class="bg" background="../../photo/img702.jpg"><div class="large"><p>I had been in military service for five years, not returning to my hometown even once.  First, I was worried that the troops of the United States would soon land Japan and we would be captured and killed.</p><br><p>At the bottom of my heart, however, I was relieved.  But I did not tell anybody since I was still in the military service.  If I gave mouth to that, I would have been threatened.  But deep in my heart, I was relieved that I may be able to survive and go home, when I heard that the war was over.</p><div class="greens">Translation by another person.</div><div class="large"><span class="orangered">Could I make it back to my home town alive?</span></div><br><p>I had served in the army for five years so that I had not come back to my home town.  First, the American soldiers landed and we were taken prisoners.  I had anxious thoughts that we might be killed.</p><br><p>When I heard that the war had come to an end, I felt relief from the bottom of my heart.  But, as I was in the army, I couldn't mention such a thing.  If I had mentioned such a thing, I'd have been threatened.  But I thought "I don't have to die and will be able to make it back to my hometown alive".</p></div></td></tr></table></body>