[spike021]

Not GP but what made me empathize the most was they didn't just have like architectural artifacts with the damage. They had written things like letters or journals. They had extremely personal accounts, some with photos, of what happened to people. The stories of extremely young children (8 years old or younger) trying to care for their parents before the parents succumbed to injuries. Kids becoming orphaned. Parents being unable to find their children. The physical results, like people's nails growing extremely oddly and totally black, skin no longer looking healthy in obscene ways.

It was honestly a bit like _being there_. Everything they have at that museum, if you have even a relatively vivid imagination, easily placed me in my mind's eye, like I was in Hiroshima for the aftermath.

Even with all this said, I'm still mostly speechless about everything I saw and read there.

I really recommend if you ever get to Japan to make some time to visit Hiroshima. Not even just for the memorial. It's actually quite a beautiful city.

[hammyhavoc]

Thanks so much for this. This is now definitely where I want to visit next.