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bridge with me.Most people in the same grade died on that day or soon after that day, while only afew friends survived like me. A friend of mine, whose face was badly burned, survivedand lived with her father until she got breast cancer in 1973. It spread to her lung, andthree years later, she passed away. Another friend who was behind the school buildingand seemed to be unhurt also got cancer twenty years later. After repeatedhospitalization, more than ten times, she died with her face black in 1980.Those who survived like me have always lived in constant fear that someday thosesymptoms will appear. Moreover, the trauma we experienced has never healed even ifour bodies have.It is certain that the nuclear age started after drops of the atomic bombs inHiroshima and Nagasaki. Regardless of these massive sacrifices, there are still somecountries in the world which still compete to develop nuclear weapons. In fact, nucleartesting has been repeated many times. I think people in Hiroshima have a duty to fightfor the abolition of those nuclear weapons as the world’s first victims of nuclearholocaust. Hiroshima is to be the starting point for abolishing them, in order to realizeworld peace.We can never hear the voices of and speak for those sacrificed with so much regreton that day. However appalling, the number of bones I picked up in the debris, thedreadful sight of a hell on Earth, and the sight of tens of thousands of dead bodies whichsuffered terribly, lying all over the ground, I really have to pass the details down to thenext generation who have never experienced war. It is my duty.Resident in Saeki-ku, Hiroshima CityBombed at the age of thirteen.