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as it was in such a state, I was thinking I would escape having only mypictures.I instantaneously thought that I could never replace my own picturesand the other things that I wanted could be prepared at anytime, so I leftwith only those. I still have several pictures from that time.Although I went to this side of the Hijiyama Bridge alone to look at thestate of affairs, I could not go forward into the sea of flames. The whole ofHiroshima was burning.I was inert and the house of the rooming house seemed to catch fire.For the meantime my aunt and I decided to run away to Mt. Ougon.When I went to the embankment of Mt. Ougon, a lot of people who hadescaped in the same way lined up. They were talking in subdued voices.Strangely everybody didn’t seem to have any sad feelings. It was just a stateof petrifaction.The whole of Hiroshima City made “bang” and “snappy” sounds, and itwas blazing. While looking still at the state of everything for several hours, Ibegan to think "We have lost war."I went down the mountain and when I returned to the house of therooming house, this time my aunt said "Return to your house in Setoda." Sheseemed to go to a relative’s house in Kabe.Though I felt lost, I didn’t have any other choice. I answered "Then, Iwill do so." And I began to walk alone towards in the direction of myhometown in the east.(Extracted from the newspaper named Chugoku Shimbun "My way" byIkuo Hirayama on June 16, 1991)(During the third grade at a junior high school mobilization, I wasbombed in the armory at Kasumi-cho in Hiroshima.)