Why was silence common to them all in the poem A doctor journal entry for August 6 1945?

Silence was common to them all in the poem “A Doctor’s Journal Entry for August 6, 1945” because they were all confronted with the overwhelming Horror and devastation of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. The trauma and shock of witnessing such extreme suffering and destruction left them speechless and unable to articulate the magnitude of what they had witnessed.