Status Updates From Kinder von Hiroshima: Japan...

“A life full of difficulties began for my grandfather and my brother and me, in the midst of the burned and ruined land. There I discovered a kind of miracle. It is that a lusty will to live beats with a steady pulse among people who have been treated cruelly and crushed down.”

“Since that time six years ago I’m a big girl now. Im in fifth grade and I’m eleven years old. Since my house was at Toyota close to the place where the bomb fell, my mother was turned into white bones before the family altar.”
Feels wrong to cut off this devastating entry here but I’m only 11 pages in and I’m already astonished by the horror. Those poor children.