Nagasaki Memorial Day at School

August 9 is the day when the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki.

In Nagasaki, all the students go to the school even during the summer vacation,
to prey and study in order not to repeat this tragedy.
Kids listened to the survivor's experiences, saw the movies, talked about the day.

These study never leads to "curse" emotion to the kids but just they noticed the importance of the peace and just fear to the war and conflict.
This is the important moment of our prefecture.

Hopefully this preying time happens to all the schools over the world.
Imagine if this tragedy happens to your family, yourself, your precious person?
To feel the pain of body and heart who suffer from the bomb
makes the world change, I believe.

Regretfully even in Japan, people got to forget the day.
On TV, silly Boxing injustice news broadcasting all over.
I felt ashamed on the mass communication people's journalism spirit.
Thus, people forget how important to keep the peaceful days.

The atomic bombs photos, stories and experiences are so shocking
that I could not tell my daughter till now.
She was too young to accept the fact.
But she would learn more at the elementary school today.
We are going to talk about the war and peace.

There was so many radical dangerous ideas of young (and old) generations all over the world.
The important action is education:not making another minus emotion by cursing of the past but creating the peaceful future by learning the pain of the past.

This was the art I was hoping the peaceful future of all over the world.
The bridge in the picture was the first target of the atomic bomb.
It was the center of the Nagasaki city and it had been supposed to kill
more people by one bomb.
The bomb was dropped around the Urakami Church in fact and the bridge hadn't been broken down. Now it was the place for citizen and tourist to play in a peace.
Every time to see the smiles of the kids playing here, think about the preciousness of this peaceful moments.