How did the people of Hiroshima treat one another after the bomb was dropped?
I saw everyone helping each other. Though right after the bomb exploded, during the confusion and pain and suffering and dying, people’s instincts told them to save themselves. People under the buildings would ask for help and the passersby couldn’t hear the cry for help or they didn’t stop for help. So, many people died by fire because nobody would help them. But after that, after 30 minutes or an hour, people came in from outside the city to help – all day and all night. I guess this showed the good part of human beings. Many people didn’t eat or drink. Everyone tried to help each other within the city. This helping continued for weeks and months and years – until the city was rebuilt enough so that people could get on with their normal lives. Even by the time I left three years later, I still saw many people helping each other. But because of the radiation and the lack of medical supplies, people continued to die and we couldn’t do anything to help them. Even the doctors couldn’t do
