[No Matter How Many Stories We Tell: War Experiences of the People of the Islands] (577) A Mother and Child in the Neighborhood Were Instantly Killed by Bullets. Yoshio Higa (88), From Gusukube Village (Now Miyakojima City), Says that a Difference of a Few Centimeters Can Mean the Difference Between Life and Death.

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I was born in 1937 in Higa, Gusukube Village (now Miyakojima City). I was part of a family of five: my parents, my older brother, and my older sister. The war came to Miyakojima when I was eight years old. There were only thatched-roof houses on the island. American planes would often fly over and straf the houses with machine gun fire. Even if we hid in our houses, the bullets would penetrate the roofs, so we couldn't completely protect ourselv…