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.:.~~-t.Ollni,!al as~e~t~ sino~,lat.te~. ~ve. been cover~~ ,el8'nher~ in
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. Bomb was dropped'-9f1 Hiroshima.
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exce~inglY great haz<dship.
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'In the' ge:thElrl~gdark. 'backli~t8d by the flooding hotell1ght, this sC.ene
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people were not hostile but exceedingly curi..ous. They s_~<l,~ll over _ _
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knee~ ~~ aDd ~l~ped_ his sword firmly ~th both ~s. _The generals
s~t·on. elt~t:' 8148 pt hbRrut the tw-shoi t: se~~.
piotur& 9f the tali. tirmlytad .xpansively
po~ed
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?n the settee with an
Americl'Ul general olinging tor d~ar i;te..on either-,~de.
"The ~i~ Tsuzuki. now r'ein£oroed. by :th~ Jap majoro-gut-us back-w..eur
'"1:l~ ~~_-~~ad~~"~O t~ sbri~, 01' ~ -: IIlIa;hbna ':ttY;.g~· nig;;t-. Th~
--~~- shrine. loeatea on aIr ls1and, is oentUries old an~ s.tlll a- goal for, pH·
grime.
It ,is r~achedthrou&h~h apl?ear:&--1;(r-be the. J~V~­
equivalent of Atlantio
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_the. town was tm-onged with people who appeared c urlous
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Our bag;;age. was carri~ to the ferry for us .. ' And on· the mai!11and. _
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Rear Admiral li. E • .-Byrd.' joined . tis.as.an.additional
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for aBs1staDce-;tlle party
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a bus and d'ep.e.rt.e,,- 'l'or:Natasaki~'
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minorJapane~e
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The governorproIaptly ':',"
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be the-now.Je.nl1l1ar "p".:..
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fact that .cars
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the pr?pert;( of' the Japlltlese a~ - therefore,' thair use b;i. us ~s un.. _.... ~.--- -. .-~.
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Ue.rines :lalld and oeouJ'J the . town.
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of a Mari.ne landing. "'e
very
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intennrtffig to be on
nat~ce' that S~.~~h8 troo~~
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governor's WetcOmtiig
The second set
of rtlcol1ectl~
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L;.!.We.r.ren, now Dean-, Scho~i ~6t- ~~~, uDiverslty of Cali1f~'a, qU6t.ed --..
tram a'letter dated11'JuDe 1948. as £ollowa:
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ot interest which involved our parties
which ~ght ~ ot irit~rest to you.
Fri~dell's
·Colonel
party
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amount
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radiuai. pres\UIIIlbly about twenty-five Dtilli-gr,ams.
It
'WaS .
. ,picked up about 'three htiDdred teet or so oft the main street i~an area
about·one-haiJ'.~rom~the
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by the Japanese.
The
G8iger CoUnter deteoted it· and led them to t~spot.
, ... Thiy dug. the iile up with shovels and by eliminatin& one shovv,lt\1l after'
'.. another. they finaUy located' a small,container. obvioUIJly'a oervical or'
vap.na1 radium applicator. the best 'pss being 'that' it was in a patien:t
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re~e-1rliig. treatment--lii-li-'docTo"iTiI-quarters
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_time of the blast'.
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Colonel Friedel! brQu~t the radiUm ~~k to Tokyo
aild had' a discuss"ion among the &t~~P • .inc11.l1iing our ~ pa'rty and other•.
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ho8p1t~1'- locate~ at the toqo
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~P681tea
We-TiDally
it With the
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~~s done' the. day be1'ore1l'le--lett. 'It was. r~pOrted to
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the fall. ~t~' Xbel" traced. it-
.to the' weiterl,l peek·ad.ai08Iltt.e.41t!' edge ot;tiie ditte!.a!' to the. top
of the hill where t~re _a"",8hr~ne •.
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bamboo forest which
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b.ea~e
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~s located on the "O~ sUe of the hUl. By that
were~e~U8tedand als~
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.0- _ . . .-~---c-~~---It cOIltaineci the storm of--.mntroverU _ra1fI4~~_DY' the ,Ameriean eorre8pon- .'
dents over "'the
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bl!glnn1ng to
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o~1me in. b~t.in general. were -sitting.1: i .ght, keeping thei!'
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Yin ·scheduled fOl" No:"'r' ·lst.
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..FhE 1.41";11 tite all •• w.4i
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fiiri'ber'-
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~il 'th~
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belief
that in the process of 0.ur1l88~Ult, we would have killed perhaps as
'many'as several
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~pe.ne6e • . In the assault
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bette~'·.to .xti~~~ ~~"O cilt.iEJtf'''hi6t~.~~~r the iiiati~'
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to an abrupt 'stop by'What amounted to.a surgical operation, the net re.
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and until we got back to l'ckyo a~t .t~~~Y81.ater, that we would
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8~- thi-a-, -OlL xhe-ataff"
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and the newspaper
pepp~e
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arrived. To our 11ITprise. this had brokfl1l in the .JapalWse papers the
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. l1>&xt day after O'Y' ni gilt 'meeth\" as comi~l!; from the Japanese. not j!rQlll
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that
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had done So-bec.~~~d !savea-'- a~great~
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tft8p~&&1e6 e~esaiQPB
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or the
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correspondents
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aboard the banG ·wagon.
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about. eur
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bring
of ~ie self-f'lagelfat1~.
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made, of eedar planks ';fgreat'
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"'1 e 'ad:!iiiem to tneinrler Shrine.
We ~ook o~· shoes oft ana
_llted in.Tsu~uId ·halted us in ~ li~. bowed to-the idol_.
The High ,
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Priest came out dres~ed in. PlWe white, and he 'and 'Tsuzuk:iwent thro'ugh
a
ce~emo.~Y' ~r;r:~h; i~Ol~-: ~ the~ ~1>a:-k :~raced us. -
Two
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supposedly spirits, dressed in white came out· and furiou~iy,~ved plumes
abou~
the-place, driving away the evil ~pirit5.
tilled with h91: sake were: giVen to
• t.o peaCe,' aild,
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and we~old this Wf.S a ,p~edge
tliat &a,sis, .we all drank it.
Colon&l-OUghtel"6~ticas
'~~~~~, a ' ~e~re~e~ta~i:'"~;~~ -t;~', ~tepped 'iorwa~d~' Paid his
resPects-to the. looal f~ct;;~: who had treated us'
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courteously.
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go~', philosophical and gave a toast to the rutur~-peaco bet~en' aU
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- emotfooaT ab-out
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I got a' li-ttle.
'it .. and',this, t;ogether with the knowledge that we'd,id
~~. or p~ll~ge~ hi~eo~jY'~;l:g~ised, the~ .~N;8t
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reooncile this cerell101lY wi th tlul' ,knowled&e which w~ ha8rl"ece~ved '
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wa:' the' .eenter for kamikazes,
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iiveda Hf. -ofriot~ c.lebratio~)n the hotels located just
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oratiOn-3M' deiUeati.On a~ thi~.'S1}.r1ne before they, took .ott'for'their mi.&-
I w~~ered whether there were mare ,~ie8 or rdatives of
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kamikazes on thi!l island .where we weresingUft'zlly vulnerable. i~'·
si'w:ia.
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to
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b,trb--nut- une%p.c~~d. ~na.t f t wpuld take ~ -s.~ime. t'tI-o
t;:'~e ~~;~;~. iiy;.; ~ssage
t'rom,:either of. tlie two cities' to Tokyo.
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Sinee we 'were afraid that ~y investi~tion of how he did it at
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the time would cause
the'system
to faU .ansi leave us'
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'not inquire as to the
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the.second floor, stepPing. over the body of a young female .partly burned.
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• go1ng~ the cmido~s of an Aaerioe:n de.signed ,concrete building like
these at home.'-t'htdi1lg-i~ a£teT~the 'la):lore:~, eq1rl.-pment--s-o '
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