Dogebara never received notification of her husband's death, and doesn't know where he died. Apart from the sum issued to her as the family member of a soldier killed in the war, she has never received any compensation at all. The loss has cast a pall over her life for more than 50 years. The war has taken perhaps an even heavier toll on women than the men.
Dogebara 的丈夫戰後就沒有回來了，既沒有收到電報，也不知道他在哪裡死去，除了弔慰金之外，沒有任何補償，就這樣過了五十多年傷痛未癒的歲月，而女人似乎又承受著更多沉重的苦難。