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and kimonos as a change of clothes and put them on his tricycle for my brother. And hewent off early the next morning.It was about 9:00 a.m. when he arrived at the Fuchu National Elementary school.However when he talked about his reason for going there, he was told "Are you lookingfor Tsujimoto? He died at 6:00 a.m. this morning.” The young man said "Even if you sayso, I do not know what to tell the woman, his mother, so please show me the body. Haveyou cremated it yet?” He answered “No, not yet. His body is over there.” So, he wentthere and looked for it. The corpses were loaded like a mountain. He looked at the faces,but everyone’s face had swelled up and he could not distinguish them. He asked "I’msorry, but I would like to confirm it and return home. Would you help me move andcheck them one by one?” He agreed and helped him. While they were checking one byone, they found the letters sewed onto socks with a thread, it said “Tsujimoto”. “There,he is.” He said to himself. And he said, “Please come to collect the bones because we willcremate them at such and such a time. He came back to Kabe and told my mother aboutit. I had him go to get it a few days later.My mother died at 93 years old in December, 1997. She understood that thatyoung man made a great effort to inform her of my brother’s fate. If she had gone thatnight, she might have met her son while he was still breathing. She regretted it overand over again. I think that thought of apologizing to Setsuo for "permitting it" wasalways at the bottom of my mother’s heart.Translated by Kazuo and Anthony J. Nepia