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blame, or who I could show my feelings to. My heart was broken and Ibegan to think about suicide.However, little words of my father saved my life. When I came backhome, my father was telling a neighbor about the time of contamination. Ihappened to hear about it, hiding myself. “My daughter was burned bythe fire over her whole body and she wasn’t able to move from her bedding.If we had suffered another air raid, I would have given up escaping andwould have been ready to die with her.” I was extremely impressed byhow my father loved me. I couldn’t stop crying.After that, I began to think, “I have to do my best to live my life.”Whenever I faced hardships, my father’s words encouraged andsupported me.My mother made me have reconstructive surgeries repeatedly. Shehoped my face would return to normal. Though the burn marks on myface faded little by little, I couldn’t regain my original facialcharacteristics.Many people died at that time, on that day. Some of them weresuffocated by smoke and some were burned by the flames. Others divedinto water with their seriously injured bodies. My pain was not so muchcompared with their pain. The hardest thing for me is when I recall thatsome of my closest friends may have been among the ones calling out forthe help on that day. I believe that protecting the peaceful earth from waris our duty and responsibility. There must not be any war, by any means.Born on the 15th of August in 1932Bombed in the 1st grade of girls’ school