Honkawa Elementary School Peace Museum

Our first stop this moring was the Honkawa Elementary School Peace Museum. We were met by the daughter of a suvivor of the A-bomb. She was very candid about the experience her mother went through.

After the attack her mother went back to her house(she was 16 and was working at a factory for the government) and found her families chared remains. She only knew her father because his body was the largest she found and next to him was her 4 year old sister. Moving to the kitchen she fond her mother and baby sister. The mother clutching the baby so tightly trying to protect her, the skin and material of their clothes between them was not damaged. At this point again I was in tears and missing my family terribly. My heart still aches as I am writing thiswith tears again streaming down my face.

After the bombing as if it was not bad enough, the survivors were discriminated aganist due the fact that the other people thought the diseases that were being experience were infectious. These survivors could not find jobs, mates or friends, forcing many of them to ignore this horrific experience to be accepted back into society.

It was a pretty heavy moring.

On a lighter note...We met with the Deputy Mayor, the Hiroshima Borad of Education Members and partents of stuents in the Hiroshima schools. It was a very enlightening question and answer session.