Everything flickered black and white. There were cows running and white fire on the neighbor's house and anti-aircraft cannonballs reaching for the bombers and peaking and arcing back down. Some of the bombs fell into the rice paddies between the houses. She was numb, she remembers, "drawn into" the spectacle.
Aiko Fujii, 10, walked back inside to her mother, who was shaking as she looked after her newborn. Being the eldest, Fujii should have helped calm her mother, but her younger sister had her arm around her instead. Fujii was scolded. ...