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Published: 2012-08-05 01:33:33 +0000 UTC; Views: 1571; Favourites: 18; Downloads: 469
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Photo taken at Hiroshima Peace Park looking through a monument to the Dome. I highly recommend that everyone visit Hiroshima sometime in their lifetime so they can see the horrible price the country paid and help to ensure that something of the kind never happens again.Related content
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Let's hope this horror never happens again. 
Nice shot.
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I think that if everyone it the world were to go to Hiroshima, walk around the museum and peace park and hear from survivors we would be almost guaranteed never to have a repeat of it. I think the thing that affected me the most burnt scraps of clothing that young children were wearing the day of the bombing. Each artifact in the museum had a description of what happened to the person it belonged to. Most descriptions ended with a variation of the line, 'This person died a few days later.'
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Are you allowed to go inside that building?
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No, it's fenced off but you can get quite close to it. It could be a bit dangerous to go inside, since it is a ruin, they also want to preserve the building in its current state. Since all of the windows and many of the walls were destroyed it is possible to see nearly all of the building's interior.
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Whoa.
Just amazing how such a structure would still be standing after all that, even though it is just the frame.
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It has gone through some restoration work. Also, I may be wrong, but I think our guides mentioned something about the dome on the top not being original because the copper it was made out of was instantly melted in the intense heat of the blast.
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Ah. That'd make sense. Although I do remember seeing the dome intact in multiple pictures.
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I have a photo similar to this one I took last year. Going to Hiroshima was one of the most moving experiences of my trip to Japan, and of my life, for very personal reasons. This is lovely and thank you for sharing.
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I was very close to tears within the museum. It's absolutely shocking, the lengths that people will go to, to achieve victory. I sincerely hope that such measures are never used again.
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Well, I'm Japanese-American. So, to know what my family experienced here during the war, and then to go over there and see what they experienced there, was very powerful and moving for me.
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I'm Australian, of Irish convict background, so I do not have as much of a personal attachment to the event as you and many others do. However, the Japanese host family I was staying with in Yokohama the week before was originally from Hiroshima. My host father's parents were just outside the city during the blast, so while they escaped mostly unharmed there may have been some long-lasting radiation damage. My Japanese teacher also arranged for an old friend of hers, who survived the bombing as a child, to speak to us of his experience.
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Ah. But what an experience, to hear from firsthand people who lived through it.
I was with a tour group that was very small, so I was fortunate to have the guide, who was a Hiroshima resident but who was not living there during the bombing, take me one-on-one through the museum. The rest of our group went their own ways. But yes, here in the US I had family members who were forced to go to the relocation camps and such (not sure if you're aware of that happening, many people here in America still don't know much about it). And I have family near the Hiroshima area still.
Well, I'm glad it touched you the way it touched me. I think when people visit Japan that should be something they don't miss out on, going to Hiroshima.
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