Nowhere in the world the human cost of war is so visible as in Hiroshima. On August 6 1945 at 8.15 am the an atomic bomb exploded & erased the city. We visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. A symbol of the horror that happened is still visible in the park, the Atomic Bomb Dome. It’s one of the few structures that were still standing after the explosion. The rest was destroyed.
The Children’s Peace Monument is a monument for peace to commemorate Sadako Sasaki and the thousands of child victims of the atomic bombing. Sadako Sasaki, a young girl, survived the bombing, but died in 1955 of leukemia from radiation of the atomic bomb.
The Cenotaph for the A-bomb Victims embodies the hope that the rebuilt city of Hiroshima will stand forever as a city of peace.
It was very busy in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. But we’ve never been in a museum where there was this absolute silence. No word, no whisper. All visitors, all people, children, adults, everybody was silent when seeing the pictures of the destruction, when reading the stories of the people who were in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.
Hiroshima today
Now, Hiroshima is a modern city. It’s again a city of rivers, of people.
