Hiroshima Memorial Hall & Peace Park

We visited the Hiroshima National Peace Memorial Hall built in 2002 designed to convey the truth of the tragedy of Hiroshima’s 1st atomic bomb of WWII on August 6, 1945 and express Japan’s desire for genuine and lasting peace - the clock shows 8.15am. The Peace Memorial Park included the Cenotaph for A-Bomb Victims and The Flame of Peace burning until all nuclear weapons are destroyed. The Children’s Peace Monument commemorates the children lost to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki where I proudly laid my origami crane in an offering of peace. My Father had been in the Occupation Force in Nagasaki, the site of the 2nd atomic bomb.Læs mere