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Shozo Okamoto (then12) was a first-year student at Sotoku Junior High School.He was exposed to the bomb at his buildung demolition site,Knocked hard to the ground.When he came to,he was badly burned and glass fragments covered the front of his body.He made it as far as the water reservoir in Hesaka,but then ran out of strength.He asked passres-by to contact his family.His older sister,who was living the closest,took him home.She helped him every way she could,but the next morning(the 7th),shortly after his mother Masayo arrived to reunite with him,he breathed his last. |
