LOST IN TRANSLATION - Chapter 6 - Hiroshima
It was late afternoon when we arrived in Hiroshima. What was I expecting? We would be visiting the site which related to the A-bomb Dome. Hiroshima was part of my childhood history and I could only see bomb sites and misery. To the extent that Hiroshima was a word and place that I was hiding from. Not for any longer. It was twilight when we arrived. From a heart beat to a dead heart, I was drawn into a scene which I have never looked at and I’ll never see again. What is left of Hiroshima today is enough for anyone to say, « Never again ».
At 8-15am, August 6, 1945 an American B29 bomber carried out the world’s first atomic bombing. It exploded approximately 600 meters southwest of Hiroshima Prefectural Promotion Hall, ripping apart and igniting the building, killing everyone in it - instantly. The memorial Looking through the memorial to the building Because the blast struck from almost directly above, some of the centre walls remained s