"This unfortunate picture was taken after the nuclear bombarding of Nagasaki, Japan in 1945. It shows a youthful Japanese kid standing ready, conveying the body of his child sibling who had been slaughtered in the bombarding. Stopgap crematoriums had been set up external the city and this young man had strolled a significant distance so his sibling could be incinerated. This journal passage from the picture taker, Joe O'Donnell, clarified the photograph.
"I saw a kid around ten years of age strolling by. He was conveying an infant on his back. In those days in Japan, we regularly saw youngsters playing with their younger siblings or sisters on their backs, yet this kid was obviously unique. I could see that he had resulted in these present circumstances place for a genuine explanation. He was wearing no shoes. His face was hard. The little head was tipped back as though the child were sleeping soundly. The kid remained there for five or ten minutes. The men in white covers strolled over to him and discreetly started to remove the rope that was holding the child. That is the point at which I saw that the child was at that point dead. The men held the body by the hands and feet and set it on the fire. The kid remained there straight without moving, watching the flares. He was gnawing his lower lip so hard that it shone with blood. The fire consumed low like the sun going down. The kid pivoted and headed quietly in the opposite direction."
