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  Thursday  March 13  2003    10: 18 AM

hiroshima

Part 3: "Hiroshima Collection"


Lunch Box
Reiko Watanabe (15 at the time) was doing fire prevention work under the Student Mobilization Order, at a place 500 meters from the hypocenter. Her lunch box was found by school authorities under a fallen mud wall. Its contents of boiled peas and rice, a rare feast at the time, were completely carbonized. Her body was not found.

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  thanks to maux