Then 3 months later Hiroshima City was destroyed by the A-Bomb. Some of our family friends were affected. She had a very pleasant and loving, positive attitude. Uncertainty of what would happen to people. War is destructive, but the mind of the people need not be destroyed by it.
People can get up and look ahead to discover a new life, hope, and joy.
Even in little things they can find happiness and joy. It is an unpublicized story but true. With all the cities burned down, the oldest city in Japan, Kyoto, was not destroyed. It would have been no effort with one bomb to destroy Kyoto with all its wooden structures. Later we learned that General Douglas MacArthur who commanded the Pacific War made strict orders not to destroy Kyoto.