Knowledge 3 | Starvation was the greatest torture

My mother says, "I spent the whole day thinking about food."

During the war, she says, she was so hungry, so incredibly hungry, that she couldn't stand it.
"You probably don't understand how painful that is."
"We ate anything we could."
Grass, things like vines, and even 'bran,' which was animal feed at the time.

Even for a while after the war, food was rationed.
One day, she went to eat curry rice with her ration coupons.
After they finished eating, she and her sister, who had gone with her, decided to get back in line.
My mother and my aunt were only in their early twenties then. Hunger must have outweighed everything else.

I had always listened to that story lightly.
Thinking only, "Things were tough back then."

But recently, in a personal account, I came across the phrase,
"Starvation is the greatest torture."
With those words, I finally understood.
That wasn't just a 'painful memory.'
It was an event that slowly threatened human life and dignity.

——Perhaps that is why.
When I see community cats in the city,
I can't help but want to feed them.

I cannot leave a hungry creature as it is.

[Series]
▶ Experience Edition (Return to Experience)
Part 1 | "Get down," "Don't enter the air-raid shelter" - Two voices that saved my mother (Sendai Air Raid)
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▶ Knowledge Edition (Continued)
Knowledge 4 | What was the Student League for the Rescue of Overseas Fathers and Brothers?