Taking the Big Break

The Atomic Bomb Dome

          I was and am still amazed at how devastating one explosion could be to one packed city such as busy Hiroshima!  I have been there, seen the A-Bomb dome, visited the children peace memorial, and seen the Hiroshima peace memorial museum. Approximately 140,000 people died in the explosion in a city of 350,000 people.   70,000 died instantly and the rest were killed from radiation and triggered diseased.  Leukemia was just one of them.

    Many people were killed, not just evil people who forced people into war, but innocent people too… actually, mostly innocent people!  I wish they only killed the bad people that made the war happen.   But, of course, they can’t.  They have to kill either the innocent as well or kill only the bad but it would be much harder and take much more time.

The Children’s Peace Memorial

    The bomb on the 6^th of August 1945 killed almost a sixth of a million people and more than one out of every three people in the city died.  That is too much devastation to be left as a casualty of war.  Japan surrendered but by the time the message got to the White House, the next atomic bomb had already hit Nagasaki on August 9^th.  

    Japan had surrendered and Germany had too, so the U.S. and Russia won.  (Great Britain and many other countries helped but the U.S. and the USSR were the main fighting force.)  Germany and Japan were not allowed to have too big a fighting force and still not allowed to have too much.  

Picture made out of origami folded cranes.

A girl named Sadako survived the war but was killed later from leukemia. Before she died, she tried to make a thousand paper cranes to make a wish come true.  She made the cranes but her wish was in vain. It was terrible what the U.S. did.  I wish there was another way!  Deaths don’t solve anything.  Compromises do.