Hiroshima Memorial and City

It was very powerful to have spent the last 2 days in Hiroshima. One day, we visited Memorial Park, a site of remembrance of the A-Bomb drop on August 6th 1945. After walking through the park and seeing all the different memorials, we went to the Hiroshima Memorial Museum. The exhibit was very informative and gave a very detailed story of the history of Hiroshima, the war, and the aftereffects of the bombs. The last third of the tour focused on our need to end nuclear proliferation and gave museum-goers a rationale for this standpoint. It was a very well done and gave visitors a place to focus their emotions, if they so chose. At the end, there were video testimonials of survivors of the bombing. The one woman I watched had lost her whole family and her story was saddening and touching. It gave me a lot to think about.

Hiroshima