Woody
is in some of these pictures but I kinda felt bad trying to have him in
all of them
it
kinda seem disrespectful. I don't think I need to explain much about Hiroshima
as
most of you know what happened if not you are a damn fool! I actually visited
a few days before the memorial occured.
The
green mound is an actually mass burial site (how creepy is that), it is
huge you can't tell from the photo.
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Below
is the Children's Peace Memorial, which was inspired leukaemia victim Sadako.
She developed leukaemia at the age of ten and decided to fold 1000 paper
cranes, which is the symbol of longevity and happiness in Japan. She was
convinced if she folded 1000 she would recover sadly she died after fold
644, however her class mates folded the remaining 356, which she was buried
with. Each year millions of cranes folded by school children from all over
Japan are shipped to the memorial there are thousands of them. In the memorial
museum her story is told and there are actual cranes she folded, some of
them are so tiny she need pins to help her fold.
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Just
a word of warning if you do visit Hiroshima and head into the Hiroshima
Peace
Memorial
Museum (picture below) maybe not a good idea to eat right before you head
in.
I
couldn't eat for a while after we exited the building. It is a very moving
experience!
A must for anyone who visits Hiroshima. It is also very disturbing especially
the diorama of A-Bomb victims
with
skin hanging off their arms from the burns and more! (I cringe at that
memory).
This
memorial (below) is just for the Korean victims, great numbers of Koreans
where shipped from their homeland to work as slave labourers in Japanese
factories during the war, and more then 1 in 10 of those killed by the
bomb was Korean.
