Woman who lived in Hiroshima when U.S. dropped atomic bomb recalls finding city destroyed

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00:00No streetcar was running, and it was flat, completely flat.

00:05So I was able to walk from the East End train station,

00:09eight rivers, eight bridges, to home with this big bag of rice.

00:15Chitama was 22 years old, living in Hiroshima, Japan, in August 1945,

00:21when the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb over the city.

00:25But Chitama was not there.

00:27The day before, she had taken a train to a friend's house a few towns over to pick up a bag of rice.

00:34When she returned to the Hiroshima train station the next day, she faced a land ravaged by war.

00:41Chitama did not see a living soul on the several-mile trek to her family's home.

00:47When she arrived four miles from the epicenter of the bomb,

00:51the house was still standing, but the neighborhood was devastated.