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**tearidrusydet** · 08-03-2012, 12:46 AM

Standing Under an Exploding Nuclear Bomb:

Maybe one for the ethics commitee:

An excert from: Eyewitness Testimonies Appeals From The A-bomb Survivors; Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation.

We Never Found Our Daughter's Bones by Kikue Komatsu

"Forty-five years have passed, and still pain tightens around my chest when I bring up those memories. The atomic bombing was the most immense, single catastrophe ever visited on this Earth. August 6 1945, started off beautifully cloudless and calm. Then, out of the blue we were attacked by a flash, heat rays, and radiation. All of central Hiroshima was engulfed in savage fires, growing into an immense conflagration, transforming people into figures more ghostly and monstrous than human.

...

To my left and right ghost-like people lay in the street; most seemed dead. I happened to meet my husband, who, fortunately, had returned safely. We embraced tearfully. We were utterly distraught over our daughter, but what could we do? By evening Hiroshima City was one great sea of flame.

...

... Not far away, groups of floating corpses bumped against each other like rafts on the Motoyasu, Honkawa, and Tenmagawa Rivers.

In spite of what we had seen, my husband and I clung to a slim hope that our daughter had been walking home when caught by the bomb, so we continued to search for her every day. These are cruel memories. A week later, we learned what had become of her. At the time of the explosion, she and the other workers were on the balcony for roll call. Outside the building, their bodies would have bourne the full impact of the blast and heat. No remains or out daughter were ever found. ..."

08-03-2012, 12:46 AM	#3
tearidrusydet Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 483 Senior Member	Standing Under an Exploding Nuclear Bomb: Maybe one for the ethics commitee: An excert from: Eyewitness Testimonies Appeals From The A-bomb Survivors; Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation. We Never Found Our Daughter's Bones by Kikue Komatsu "Forty-five years have passed, and still pain tightens around my chest when I bring up those memories. The atomic bombing was the most immense, single catastrophe ever visited on this Earth. August 6 1945, started off beautifully cloudless and calm. Then, out of the blue we were attacked by a flash, heat rays, and radiation. All of central Hiroshima was engulfed in savage fires, growing into an immense conflagration, transforming people into figures more ghostly and monstrous than human. ... To my left and right ghost-like people lay in the street; most seemed dead. I happened to meet my husband, who, fortunately, had returned safely. We embraced tearfully. We were utterly distraught over our daughter, but what could we do? By evening Hiroshima City was one great sea of flame. ... ... Not far away, groups of floating corpses bumped against each other like rafts on the Motoyasu, Honkawa, and Tenmagawa Rivers. In spite of what we had seen, my husband and I clung to a slim hope that our daughter had been walking home when caught by the bomb, so we continued to search for her every day. These are cruel memories. A week later, we learned what had become of her. At the time of the explosion, she and the other workers were on the balcony for roll call. Outside the building, their bodies would have bourne the full impact of the blast and heat. No remains or out daughter were ever found. ..."
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