” he met hundreds and hundreds who were fleeing, and every one of them seemed to be hurt in some way.  The eyebrows of some were burned off and skin hung from their faces and hands.  Others, because of pain, held their arms up as if carrying something in both hands.  Some were vomiting as they walked,.  Many were naked or in shreds of clothing.  On some undressed bodies, the burns had made patterns – of undershirt straps and suspenders and, on the skin of some women (since white repelled the heat from the bomb and dark clothes absorbs it and conducted it to the skin), the shapes of flowers they had had on their kimonos. “

-Hiroshima,   John Hersey

(pg 39-40)