ホームスティの後で、広島に行きました。広島ドームはとてもすごいと悲しかったです。私は泣きました。将来、ピースがほしいです。WWIIはとてもあぶないとおそろしかったです。ミュージアムは面白かっただが、悲しかったです。A-bombだので、たくさん人が死にました。将来に、私は外交官になりたいです。たくさん国を助かるがほしいので、外交官になりたいです。そして、穏やかな(odayakana/peaceful)世界を見たいです。
Our first day in Hiroshima was a powerful one. We visited the Hiroshima Dome, which is a building that mostly survived the blast of the A-bomb. It was amazing to see, knowing that while the building survived, the people inside did not. Right next to this building was a T-shaped bridge that was the original target of the bomb. We also saw the sign for the hypocenter of the bomb, aka where the bomb went off. There were plenty of monuments surrounding the area, a constant reminder of the past and what war could do. The statue that made me cry was the statue that was built in remembrance of a student named Sadako, who died from leukemia caused as an aftereffect of the bomb's radiation.
The museum we visited was also just as powerful. There was a display inside of a shadow that had been burned onto a staircase. The shadow was of a person who had been immediately vaporized from the bomb, and the shadow was burned on the ground due to the bright light that the bomb emitted. Black fingernails and black rain were also on display, each aftereffects of the bomb.
The final thing we saw that day was the monument that holds all the names of those that have died due to the bomb, whether it was at the time the bomb exploded, or afterwards. Names are still being added today, as people still die from residual radiation from the bomb.
I want to end this post with a wish for peace in the future. May mankind never need such destructive weapons again, and may war someday become a thing of the past.
The museum we visited was also just as powerful. There was a display inside of a shadow that had been burned onto a staircase. The shadow was of a person who had been immediately vaporized from the bomb, and the shadow was burned on the ground due to the bright light that the bomb emitted. Black fingernails and black rain were also on display, each aftereffects of the bomb.
The final thing we saw that day was the monument that holds all the names of those that have died due to the bomb, whether it was at the time the bomb exploded, or afterwards. Names are still being added today, as people still die from residual radiation from the bomb.
I want to end this post with a wish for peace in the future. May mankind never need such destructive weapons again, and may war someday become a thing of the past.