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# You make me happy

# When skies are grey... #

How did you learn to speak English?

I'm not asking your advice.

GUNSHOTS

LAUGHTER

Goodbye, cowboy!

Understand? Tarzan.

TARZAN YELL

Oh.

ELECTROLARYNX VIBRATES

LAUGHTER

So, I'd like to begin by asking you,

what was life like before the bomb was dropped?

If you close your eyes and think back to before the war,

what do you see?

SPEAKER TONES

NEWSREADER:Germany and Italy,

who had plunged Europe into war,

became fully united with Japan in the strategy of terror.

CHEERING

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT:December 7th, 1941 -

a date which will live in infamy.

NEWSREADER:Pearl Harbor was part of a huge area

under simultaneous attack.

Thus, the strategy planned in Berlin becomes clear -

world conquest.

Tell us about Hiroshima.

What was it like during the war?

LAUGHTER

NEWSREADER:Under Japanese rule,

alive prisoners have been subjected to indescribable suffering.

CHEERING

NEWSREADER:The end of the war in Europe,

officially announced by the Prime Minister.

The German war is at an end.

Everyone realised perfectly well that,

although the German war was over, the Japanese war was not.

PRESIDENT TRUMAN:There can be no peace in the world

until the military power of Japan is destroyed.

Only surrender can prevent the kind of ruin

which they have seen come to Germany

as a result of continued useless resistance.

REIKO:

DISEMBODIED VOICES

HIDEO:

How far was your house from the centre of the explosion?

MICHIKO:

A short time ago,

an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima

an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima

and destroyed its usefulness to the enemy.

That bomb has more power than 20,000 tonnes of TNT.

That bomb has more power than 20,000 tonnes of TNT.

It is an atomic bomb.

It is a harnessing of a basic power of the universe.

We have spent more than $2 billion

on the greatest scientific gamble in history,

and we have won.

What has been done

is the greatest achievement

of organised science in history.

Mm.

If they do not now accept out terms,

they may expect a rain of ruin from the air

the like of which has never been seen on this Earth.

The end is not yet.

SEIICHIRO:

CHIYOKO:

LOW RUMBLE

CHIYOKO:

KIKUYO SPEAKS JAPANESE

Er...

NEWSREADER:In the bay of Tokyo itself,

the complete and formal surrender of Japan.

A better world

shall emerge out of the blood and carnage of the past.

Let us pray that peace

be now restored to the world.

CHEERING AND HONKING

CHIEKO:

HIROMU:

CHIEKO:

HIROMU:

SEIICHIRO:

ARCHIVE:To the scrapheap went the guns,

the ships, the tanks.

A growing new idea,

the idea of democracy.

# You'll never know, dear

# How much I love you

# You are my sunshine away. #

REIKO:

SUEICHI:

TERUMI:

HIROMU:

HIROSHI:

CHIEKO:

HIROMU:

HIROSHI:

SEIGO:

HIROSHI:

HIROMU:

Of course.

REIKO:

TERUMI:

TERUMI:

TERUMI:

NEW SPEAKER:

CHIYOKO:

TERUMI:

MICHIKO:

SUEICHI:

When you got married,

did you tell your wife you were a hibakusha?

SHE LAUGHS

MICHIKO:

HIROSHI:

KEIKO:

KIKUYO:

NEW SPEAKER:

KIKUYO:

NEW SPEAKER:

NEW SPEAKER:

TERUMI:

HIROMU:

KIYOMI:

RINGING STOPS

BELL RINGS ONCE