The huge Peace Memorial Museum and Peace Fountain stand at the opposite end of the park. In the museum, every moment of the attack and its aftermath is relived vividly. Burning, burning, burning. But the aftermath is no less terrible. Bodies burned beyond recognition can still walk painfully to the makeshift clinics in the elementary and junior high schools.
Mothers carry their dead babies on their backs.
Everyone is dazed. No one knows what to do. And as the first months pass, radiation sickness becomes evident. People drop like flies for no apparent reason. Amazingly there are still some people alive.