Kokaido(right) and An'eikan(left)
== In the next morning of the air raid, a girl, living in nearby village of Nagaoka, was told by her father to go to Nagaoka and to find out her two sisters. They were living in Nagaoka; older sister, 20-year old, worked there and younger sister,14-year old, was a resident student. The girl started by bicycle without having a breakfast. Though she got to the point that her father told her to go, she could not find her sisters. Then she decided to go to Nagaoka.
-- She found two sisters was lying down on a rice field near Senzai-cho. They were covered with futon, and could not move. The older sister asked her to go home and take cloths because their cloths were burned. No telephone was available, so the girl rode bicycle to go back her home which was five miles away.
-- She again headed to Nagaoka with her Mother and Father dragging a cart. The mother brought rice balls to feed two daughters. On the way, her mother put her on the cart saying that she should have been tired. It took two hours to get to Nagaoka, then she found only younger sister was lying in a garden of a house. The older sister had already been sent to the first aid station because of severe burn.
-- Since the cart would wave and make pain, the younger sister was carried by a door board to the first aid station. The father asked a math problem to the younger sister. The girl asked her father why he asked, then he told that he worried whether his dauther's blain was okay or not. The younger sister said it was an elementary school level math problem.
-- The first aid station was set in a school. The girl found the older sister was laid on the ground. They waited for long time, then two girls were taken to an army doctor. Treatment was simple; the doctor just got rid of dirt, put some medicine, and wrapping with bandage. Burnt skin was peeled off easily. The father told the girl quietly that younger sister would be saved, but older sister could not get through the day. The girl decided that she would never quarrel with her sister any more and sweared to take care of younger sister well when they could go home.
-- The older sister apologized that she should have stayed at home in stead of living in Nagaoka, she said if she had done so, this could not happen. And the older sister told the younger sister to calm down and endure, saying everyone was having pains.
-- The younger sister was getting pain more and more so the father and mother asked the doctor to give her an injection. After several minutes, the younger sister's 14-year life was ended. The girl remembered it was 2:40 p.m.
-- Since the younger sister became quiet, the older sister wondered and asked. The father answered that the younger sister had got sleep, and told the older sister not to speak much. But an hour later, the older sister also got worse. Again the doctor gave an injection, then the older sister died at 4:30 p.m. The girl heard that the injection was hydromorphone. Perhaps it might be an euthanasia.
-- Putting two dead bodies on the cart, the family walked five miles to their home. The girl imagined that how her 20 year old and 14 year old sisters tried escaping from the town with fire on thier hear and cloths. She thought that sorrow of her family would last until the last day of her life.(ref#2 pp410-414)
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