White Light\Black Rain: The Destruction Of Hiroshima And Nagasaki Page #5
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We didn't know what it was.
For a doctor,
it's frightening
not to know
what you're treating.
My sister, Kuniko, was 1 3.
Her gums were bleeding.
All of her hair fell out.
Her body was covered
with purple spots.
She was writhing in pain.
After the bomb,
she seemed fine,
so we didn't understand
what was happening to her.
Then she died.
lt was me who convinced
my parents
that the family should
be together in Nagasaki.
A few months later
they were dead.
My siblings never
got to try chocolate
and the other
wonderful things of life.
l truly wish
l could have died,
instead of them.
l felt so much guilt.
l wanted to kill myself.
l told her, ''Hang on,
Life is worth living.''
But she missed our mother
and fell deeper into despair.
She jumped in front
of a train going at full speed.
l just couldn't go on.
So l went
to the train tracks
and stood where
my sister had stood.
l heard the train whistle and waited
as the train rushed towards me.
But l became afraid
and jumped aside.
l realized
there are two
kinds of courage--
the courage to live
and the courage to die.
My sister had
the courage to die.
Me?
Even if l'm alone,
l still want to live.
l don't hold a grudge.
Japan lost the war.
But how do we live tomorrow?
What do we eat?
The basic things.
How do we survive?
We didn't know
about radiation.
We called it ''pika don.''
''Pika don'' was like
a dirty word for the bomb.
And the ''pika don'' people
became the untouchables.
We were treated like dirt.
But we still had to eat.
We stole corn
from people's fields.
We didn't know everything
was irradiated.
The only things
l didn't eat were
cats, mice and humans.
There were no mice.
The cats were too quick
to catch.
The humans, well,
we wouldn't.
Besides, they were covered
We found a way to survive.
When l felt like giving up,
which l often did,
l'd remember
l was Catholic
and suicide isn't allowed,
so l'd better
just suck it up.
Our shelter was a hole
on the side of a mountain
lt was hard to stay dry or sleep.
ln front of our shack they built,
an airstrip for the Americans.
There were skeletons
all over the area.
So when they
built the airfield,
the bones were
crushed into dust.
When the Americans came,
we were scared to see
all the jeeps.
But they were kind to us.
They gave us chocolate
and chewing gum.
ln no time,
we were yelling,
''Hello, hello.''
We were just kids.
l asked them, ''Why?''
''Why did you
kill my family?''
''Why did they
deserve to die?''
Of course they didn't
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