Hiroshima Tour 5/18

   I thought the tour in Hiroshima was a little bit depressed since this place suffered a lot during the second world war. However, when arriving to the city, except the memorial and museum, I felt like the energy of the city which was almost entirely ruined. It was hard to believe that people sill want to live in the place where suffered a lot and they try to build it better.
   The tour at the museum was amazing. By seeing a lot of exhibitions, even not experiencing the real scene, I felt how horrible the bomb was. The most impressive part of the tour was a stone having a shadow of a person. I couldn't imagine the scene that a person sitting there suddenly became the dust on the ground. Also, I was touched a lot by seeing the story of a girl who survived during the bomb but died at the age of 12 because of the disease caused by the radiation. After she was diagnosed, she kept folding the paper cranes to make wishes until she passed away. I realized how the bomb massively ruined not only the city, but also the people.

The paper crane folded by the girl.

Many other influences were caused by the bomb, such as black rain which made people get diseased after the bomb.

The monitor which has names & pictures of the victims during the bomb.

Another part of the tour which touched me was the memorial place where listed the names and pictures of all the victims of the bomb. Honesty, I don't think I could remember the name or the photo of those people. But the museum still tried their best to collect information of those victims in order to memory and respect these innocent people.

The introduction of the monitor.

Coming out of the museum, I went to Children Memorial Plaza. There were full of paper cranes in the several exhibition windows. All those paper crane were folded by students from different schools. They urged the hope of the peace around the world. All the difficulties Japanese people went through also made them to be collectivism. The history was passed, but we should never forget the sadness. Hoping for the peace and making the peace around the world are the best for everyone living on the Earth.

A project made of paper cranes 

My feeling of visit Hiroshima memorial museum was the same as the visit to 911 memorial. Both were tragedies and horrible memories. U.S. was a maker in Hiroshima bomb and a victim in 911. However, most people involved or died during these two tragedies were innocent people. None of them was not a victim. I am hoping the world to be peaceful and countries which are aggressive to calm down and think who will be the winner if there will be a war. The answer is obvious, no one will be a winner. The only result caused by the war is the ruin. Wish the world be peaceful forever.