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their head went back (and) (died), said Thurlow. After we just sat on the hill and watched the entire city burn. The day after the blast, Thurlows parents came and found her. Her father came back to the city after being at sea during the bomb, and found their house burned to ashes, she said. My mother was badly collapsed, but she was able to escape. Both of them were alive and came to find me and then they told me my sister was in bad shape and her child was near-death, said Thurlow. They somehow managed to escape to our relatives summerhouse. I couldnt recog- nize them (and) my sister had a hairpin that helped us identify them. Unfortunately, Thurlows sister and niece passed away after a few days of being in agony and without medical care, she said. When the dust, smoke and ashes settled, the tragedy had unveiled itself completely causali- ties had reached approximately 140,000 people by the end of 1945, Thurlow said. 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The form has been so popular that it is used in a number of dental practices in Toronto and across North America. Visit our new website and facebook page 5 Th u rsd ay, A u g u st 11, 2011 O A K V ILLE B E A V E R w w w .in sid eH A LTO N .co m Victims looked like ghosts and smoke, which was rising with the mushroom cloud, Thurlow said. There was supposed to be human beings, but they sure didnt look like human beings. They looked like ghosts, (their) hair was standing up skyward and the skin and their flesh was hanging from their bones, and part of their bodies were missing and bleeding, said Thurlow. The most grotesque thing I remember is seeing the people on the ground with their stomachs burst open with the intestines stretched out. Their eyeballs were just hanging down and some were holding them in their hands. While Thurlow was at the headquarters, her sister and niece were on their way to the eye doc- tor, walking on the bridge when the bomb hit, and both of them were blackened, burned and swollen at least ten times larger than the normal size of their body, Thurlow said. Thurlow and the remaining survivors were able to escape to the foot of the hillside and were confronted with scores of dead and burned peo- ple along the way, she said. I never saw anybody running around all screaming for help, they just didnt have the physical and psychological strength with them. People were just stunned and slowly shuffling from the centre of the city, outside of the city and everybody was begging for water, said Thurlow. The people that escaped with me, we were cov- ered with blood. Everybody was begging for water, (so) we wanted to do something to help them. Thurlow said the group went to a nearby stream to stop the blood, and tore off their clothes and soaked them in the water. They rushed back to the people who direly needed water. We put the cloth over their mouth and they desperately sucked the moisture. Some just looked into (our) eyes and thanked us and then Continued from page 3 See It's page 8 DANIEL HO / SPECIAL TO THE BEAVER IN PURSUIT OF PEACE: Oakville lawyer Jarvis Sheridan leads the audience in song during the event organized by the Oakville chapter of the International Campaign for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons at the Central Library. 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