Greetings,
Earlier this afternoon, Hannah and I received a tour of Peace Memorial Park from one of WFC’s peace guides. We saw the different monuments and learned about their meanings. Some of the monuments are dedicated to foreign individuals that were involved in helping victims after the bombing. One of the monuments displayed a poem that represented a plea for world peace and nuclear weapon disarmament after President Truman said dropping a third bomb was a possibility. One of the larger monuments was a lounge that holds the ashes of thousands of victims. It’s interesting because it includes designs from Buddhism, Shintoism, and traditional emperor’s tombs. There is another monument close by that is dedicated to all the Korean victims. The monument points towards the Korean Peninsula. The A-bomb dome was nearby so we were able to learn about its history as a museum and its architecture.
Peace and love,
Zoe