Hiroshima

Hiroshima Peace Park is an extensive memorial to victims of the first atomic bomb, detonated August 6, 1945. When we visited (in December, 1998), I was struck by the irony that the U.S. was simultaneously dropping bombs on another country half a world away. The Mayor of Hiroshima regularly sends letters protesting nuclear testing; the two most recent, dated the second week of December, were posted to Russia and the U.S.


The A-bomb Dome remains a stark reminder of the results of the atomic fireball.	Karen took pictures, too.

The Children's Peace Monument is draped with thousands of origami paper cranes	as is the Statue of a Prayer for Peace.

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