Hiroshima is a shrine to itself, and its suffering the first attack with an atomic weapon. This famous dome is the Hiroshima Gembaku Dome, and remains a witness to the destruction of the city during the "Pacific War."
Approximately 1500 feet above this spot, the first atomic weapon used in war was detonated. The blast effects from this graveyard helped identify the epicenter by angle of the burn into the stone.
A plaque at the spot of the epicenter tells some history.
At the Peace Museum, the younguns read about the history.
A section of the park was dedicated to a little girl who died of leukemia some years after the war. Her name was Sadako, and she was told that if she made a thousand paper cranes, she could be cured. She died before making the cranes.
These are parts of a bridge that survived the atomic explosion.
The river is home to all kinds of turtles, birds and fish today.
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We might look a little too smiley while walking around Hiroshima's Peace Park. I don't remember smiling that much. It was a solemn way to spend the morning, I thought.
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