Hiroshima is a very strange place to visit as an American tourist. The city is obviously very new. The peace park where the bombed dropped is gorgeous. The day I visited had the most perfect blue skies and fluffy white clouds. The entire time all you can think is: we annihilated this place. The museum does an amazingly fair and unbiased job of explanation the bombing. They cover everything: Japan’s treatment of the Chinese and the Koreans, the bombing pearl harbor, and even logical reasons as to why Hiroshima was chosen to bomb. I did pretty well until they started showing remnants of children's clothes and telling the story of the little girl who folded 1000’s of paper cranes to not dies from leukemia. I got pretty choked up. I guess it doesn’t get much more depressing that atom bombs and little kids.
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