We walked to the Hiroshima Peace Gardens and Atomic Bomb memorial. It is difficult to express in words how moving it was. It was all at once filled with grief, regret, hope, and an impassioned plea for the abolition of nuclear arms worldwide.
Museum complexes are dedicated to those lives affected by the blast, from those orphaned and left alone, those who died slow and painful deaths from burns and radiation poisoning and those whose only trace were shadows burnt onto the walls and steps of buildings.
It was a confronting and provoking morning and not an experience I will soon forget.
After lunch we explored the city some more, doing a bit of shopping and lapping up the far less hectic atmosphere.
However, this will always be the day I had the opportunity to experience and share the grief of countless others and share their hope for a future free from the horror that occurred in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945.
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