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Luckily, my father went fishing in the sea near Miyajima that day.Fishing was his hobby and Miyajima is a distance from Hiroshima city. Assoon as he saw the mushroom cloud of the atomic bomb, he went home onfoot. Our house had collapsed and caught fire around 2 p.m. My mothermanaged to get out of the broken house before the fire broke out. On theother hand, my sister took my four-year-old brother Eiji to anophthalmological clinic that day. She had come back from the place whereshe had evacuated the night before. They were on Yanagibashi at thatmoment. They were burned black. When I met them a day after that, theirfaces had completely changed. For two weeks, emitting a terrible odor fromtheir burned and festered bodies, wanting water, they were tormented. Atlast, they were released from suffering when they died. Soldiers dug deepinto the ground, threw their dead bodies into the hole, and burned them withgasoline and a match. They turned the bodies over with a bamboo pole andsaid, “Their stomachs have not burned yet. Their bowels also have notburned completely.” My parents and I looked at the sight without tears,without any emotion. There was no human dignity there. My sister and mybrother ended their short lives like worms. Later, one of my friends told methat she didn’t cry at all when she went back to her house which was sweptby flames and she saw her parents’ white bones.For a long time, I suffered from these memories; I didn’t have anyemotion in such sad situations. However, an American psychologist studiedand announced a new theory. According to his theory, our mental reactionreduces in extremely sad situations and we can’t react properly, even thoughwe recognize the situation. In his theory, he called such a state of mind“mental lockout” or “mental numbness”. His theory healed my pain. TheAtomic Bomb not only had terrible hot winds which burned people to deathbut also a destructive power that people had never experienced. It wasradioactivity. Many people, including my friends and my relatives, graduallydied because of radioactivity. I heard if purple spots appeared on the skin, itwould be the sign that I would die soon. Every morning, I looked at my bodynervously. My uncle and my aunt had evacuated to Ushita and they didn’tget burned at all that day. However, two weeks after that day, purple spotsbegan to appear on their bodies and soon after that they died. My mothertook care of them till their death. She said, “Their internal organs wentrotten and melted. A thick black liquid came out from their bodies.”