Volume 43, Number 3 · February 15, 1996
The Beat of War
By Murray Kempton
Reporting World War II, Part One:1 American Journalism 1938-1944 Part Two: American Journalism 1944-1946
Library of America, Vol. 1, 912; Vol. 2, 970 pp., $35.00 each
'Immediately after the explosion, the Reverend Mr. Kiyoshi Tanimoto, having run wildly out…and having looked in wonderment at the bloody soldiers at the mouth of the dugout they had been digging, attached himself sympathetically to an old lady, who was walking along in a daze, holding her head with her left hand, supporting a small boy of three or four on her back with her right, and crying, 'I'm hurt! I'm hurt! I'm hurt!' Mr. Tanimoto transferred the child to his own back, and led the woman by the hand down the street, which was darkened by what seemed to be a local column of dust. He took the woman to a grammar school that had previously been designated for use as a temporary hospital in case of emergency. By this solicitous behavior, Mr. Tanimoto at once got rid of his terror.'
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