Ground Zero – Hiroshima
“The rays simply destroyed body cells – caused their nuclei to degenerate and broke their walls.”
John Hersey – Hiroshima
Some lighthearted takes on this week’s WPC:
Weekly Photo Challenge: Wall
beeblu blog
life, or something like it, in poetry and photos
beeblu blog 
Can’t put an unexplained “like” on this one, though your photo did give me pause–as a good photo should—for meditation today.
The ‘like’ button does have its limitations.
Thanks for your thoughts here, Cynthia. As John Hersey says, it’s only memory of these events that keep us safe from the bomb, but that, too, is changing with the spectre of barbarians that don’t value even their own lives.
Wow. What else is there to say? That is a profound wall.
Visiting the site was a profound experience.
Thanks for sharing this. I’ve never been to the site, and probably never will. Perfect for this challenge . . . literally and figuratively.
You’re welcome. It’s somewhere I’ve wanted to go for many years and am grateful I finally got the opportunity to do so.
An interesting perspective for that photo.
Thanks, Charles. There are so many interesting perspectives at this site.
Good photo, but a very sad one too. A reminder of what happened in history and may it never happened again.
The exhibits in the museum really bring home the enormity of this event, Mabel. Burnt clothes, bicycles, dolls from children.
A clever post: thought-provoking – horrific, even; and terribly sad.
Memorials, museums and the preservation of the record of horrific events like this are so important. On the day we visited the site, there were many foreign tourists but also many groups of Japanese schoolchildren on tour with their teachers. We were stopped by a group, who asked us if they could read a peace poem that they had written in English to us. It was a very moving day, all round.
How wonderful, that they had written it and read it to you.
too sad 😦
It is a deeply affecting place, particularly the display of personal effects of people who died there.
The fireball generated was estimated to be a million degrees at its centre and it exploded 600 metres above the ground. Pure insanity.
a poignant moment. i don’t think i could visit the museum, but this is a valuable reminder and a cry – let us not let this happen again. thanks for sharing.
Thanks, kris. The museum brings home the sheer madness inherent in the quest for power.
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This photo caused me to immediately pause – a little stunned actually. I was deeply affected by this picture. There are some things we must never take lightly … this is one of them.
Thank you for sharing it.
Thanks, Joanne. My friends left for our island accommodation after brunch, but I stayed here the whole day. What we do to one another in times of war is an abomination.
Thank you for a thoughtful photo. It reminded me of a post done by a fellow blogger about Auschwitz. The comments (and your responses) have been very good also.
Nancy
Thank you. Naomi’s post takes the reader from darkness into light.
Both posts (yours and hers) deal with a horrific topic and do a good job of it.
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