Hiroshima Memorial Park ritual of remembrance

Hiroshima Day, 6 August

What words can express the horrors of war? The atrocity of dropping an atom bomb on Hiroshima?  Nagasaki? The complicity of citizens? The heart-wrenching desire to set things more right. The craving for forgiveness and atonement? Spirit of Peace, hear our prayer. ‘U.S. airman Matthew McGunigle photographed the Hiroshima blast. After the war, he entered […]

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