Ari's Planet

At the Peace Museum in Hiroshima, memorializing the atom bomb dropped on the city in 1945 and dedicated to the eradication of nuclear weapons from the world, there are drawings by survivors. One shows a skeleton standing amid rubble. The caption reads:

Anonymous, August 7th 1945 around 5am, 12 at time of bombing, 69 when he drew the picture.
I went with my uncle to the charred rubble of his house where my aunt had been. Near the back door we halted, "Ah! Ah..." We couldn't speak. There before our eyes were the skeletal remains of my aunt, still standing. With large teardrops flowing down his cheeks, my uncle said, "Oh, how hot you must have been! I'm so sorry. Please forgive me." My uncle tried to gently clasp her skull with both hands, but it suddenly fell apart into pieces on the ground.