The Bombing of Sendai

my mother said the bombing was incessant and they went about their school home work routines, schoolmates disappeared, then there was no school, still they had to study because state exams were coming, and with the carpet bombing of Sendai they went to the rice paddys to avoid the fires and her brothers stayed behind and put out cinders on the rooftop they were lucky they had stone walls around their garden and their homestead, in the meanwhile the moms and the children in the paddys pretended like the bombs were fireworks ooo and aahh

kind of like we pretend being drunk is celebrating