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preparing various things just in case. My brother came to tell me that he hadgone to Yokogawa, but there had been no way to get into the city from there.The city glowed red as the fire was raging out of control. So, he had gonearound all the way from Gion to Ushita, trying to find the way in, but hecouldn’t.Next morning I woke up at five and went with Mr. Yamaguchi to searchfor my son. Having remembered that my son said he would go to theprefectural office building to help the evacuation, I entered the city fromKakomachi.Walking along the riverside all the way to Dobashi, I noticed a streetcarstuck there due to the atomic bomb. So, I approached it and got into it. To myhorror, I found many dead bodies piled one on the top of another in thecorridor and blocking the way. I searched the car for my son from the frontdoor, shouting, “Hajime, your mother is here to take you home.”And then I went to the back door and shouted again. However, what Icould hear was the voices of some people alive just begging for water hereand there, not the voice of my son. “Lady, please give me some water.” Upontheir request, I shared little by little the water I had. It was most likely thelast water before they die. I’m not sure now if what I had done for them wasgood or not.As everything was burned down, I could hardly tell where we were, but Ireached a place where I could see Nisseki, Japan Red Cross Hospital. There Ifound a piece of board that said Ichi-jyo, the name of a school, the First Girls’School. All girls of the school were dead, lying in a line. Strangely, they wereall holding their neighbor’s ear or hand. They wore nothing and were naked,leaving a mark of elastic band from the pants on them. Seeing this horriblesight, it occurred to me that my son might have died like them.When I walked farther from the Dobashi stop, I heard someone saying,“Is there anyone who lives in Midorii?” That was Susumu Tamehiro, who wasin the same grade as Hajime and went to Nichu, the Second Junior HighSchool.As far as I could see, there were piles of dead bodies. So, I couldn’t gofarther without stepping over them. It was pretty hard for me to locatewhere Susumu was, calling each other many times. The sight there was likehell.Eventually, I recognized him. He had white bandages all over his body. I