In March, the Japanese Military admitted prefectural second high school's students into the Udo force. After that went smooth, on March 24th, a day after the American air raid started, prefectural second girl's school students became military nurses. On the 25th, prefectural first girl's school students too became army nurses, Naha city management school students became soldiers. On the 26th prefectural third junior, second junior, Kainan junior and forestry high school students joined the military, The third girl's school students became nurses of the north. Furthermore, prefectural first junior high school students became high level military. On 29th, prefectural industry school students became high level. On the 31st , the day before the Okinawa War broke out, Sekitoku private girl's school students became high level nurses, and what more, youth older than 15 years old became nurses, cooks, and courage soldiers. Those were all compulsory arrangement.

According to the passage, these were all compulsory arrangements. Many students were not able to come back to school or home.
Families were broken, not even being known of the family's place of death. What could ever be more cruel than this?