BBCNEWS Witness History June 4, 2024 09:42:00
I heard from many people that at the time there was no colour in hiroshima. there was only black, white or grey. some people say that no plants would grow here for the next 75 years and everybody believed that rumour. they thought this town was dead. at the time, the trees looked like charcoal, a stick of charcoal, like this. but on some of the trees, buds emerged. when people saw that the green buds had come out, they thought that they could survive as well. it was comforting. i can just imagine the vividness of the tiny green bud in that colourless world. it must have given people some comfo...