On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima...
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On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima, Japan, was the target for the first use of atomic weapons in history. Before the attack Allied bombers had spared the city. Dating back to the fifteenth century, it was regarded as one of Japan's most beautiful cities. At approximately 8 a.m. the bomb was dropped. The attack by the Enola Gay changed everything. In an instant the city and its beauty were eradicated. A wasteland remained, marked simply by the shattered remains of the dome at the city center. Who among the Japanese people gazing out upon the desolation could imagine anything "new"?
Out of the wasteland and the ashes, a new city has emerged. It is one of the most modern cities in all Japan with a population of approximately 1,000,000 citizens. Who could have imagined this city in the late morning hours of August 6, 1945? The ancient city was consumed by the blast of the atomic bomb. A new city that could never have been imagined in the midst of the former devastation has taken its place. It is bright and contemporary and provides an eternal reminder to all of the destructive power of human hate in the skeletal remains of the "peace" memorial in its downtown. Its very existence attests to the power of life to overcome those "former things."
-- Frye
Out of the wasteland and the ashes, a new city has emerged. It is one of the most modern cities in all Japan with a population of approximately 1,000,000 citizens. Who could have imagined this city in the late morning hours of August 6, 1945? The ancient city was consumed by the blast of the atomic bomb. A new city that could never have been imagined in the midst of the former devastation has taken its place. It is bright and contemporary and provides an eternal reminder to all of the destructive power of human hate in the skeletal remains of the "peace" memorial in its downtown. Its very existence attests to the power of life to overcome those "former things."
-- Frye
