Battersea Park
May 1993 | ||
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| The WW1 and WW2 memorials down near the ferry to the Statue of Liberty.... | ||
I won't let you die in vain!
22 November 2002 | ||
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| Cicadas grow underground for eight years, then they come out to play for five days, mate and die.... The noise they made in Oz was deafening... Louder than an airport... All screaming for attention and for sex until the party is over.... This one was silent, on the ground, it's time was over... So all I could do is photograph it and put it on this webpage... | ||
Sadako Sasaki's Story
18 May 2003 | ||
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| Sadako was 2 years old when the US dropped the A-bomb over Hiroshima in 1945. In spring 1955 at age 11, like many other children she became sick and diagnosed with Leukemia, which people from Hiroshima called 'the A-Bomb disease'. She heard a story that if you fold a thousand paper cranes a wish is granted. She folded more than a thousand, but her wish to recover was not granted and she died in October that year at age 12. Three years later the 'Children's Peace Memorial' was erected in her name. | ||
Children's Peace Memorial
18 May 2003 | ||
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| Every day hundreds of school children visit the Hiroshima Children's Peace memorial to bring thousands of paper cranes that they folded.... Here you see a group of schoolchildren at the memorial... | ||
Origami Cranes
18 May 2003 | ||
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| The Cranes brought by school children from Japan and sent to Hiroshima from all over the world are exhibited in the glass cages surrounding the memorial... Sadako's legacy has made the paper crane known as a symbol of the desire for peace around the world... | ||
Sadako holding a Crane
18 May 2003 | ||
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| A closer look at the statue of Sadako.... | ||
Memorial for the Korean Victims of the A-Bomb
18 May 2003 | ||
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| Japan's society was (and still is to some degrees) very discriminatory. It is a shame how they treated the Korean victims of the Atomic bomb. In death (and especially in such a horrible death like the one of the nuclear bomb) we should all be alike... The story of the memorial is on the next photograph.... The central cenotaph of the Memorial park does not contain their names. | ||
The background of the Korean Memorial
18 May 2003 | ||
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| In some of the more recent plaques at the memorial site, Japan has started to quietly approach this aspect of their past in a more critical light... Their own 'Vergangenheitsbewaeltigung'. | ||
Paper Cranes
18 May 2003 | ||
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| Left at the Memorial for the Korean victims... | ||
Strange visitors
18 May 2003 | ||
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| Not everyone has the proper mindset for the memorial. This is a peace bell and here are some Japanese tourists that stand under the bell while one of their friends tries to hit it the strongest. The person under the bell then would walk away with shaking legs. It would have been funny in a different place, but here it was just creepy. | ||
Cenotaph
18 May 2003 | ||
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| The Cenotaph holds the registered names of tens of thousands of victims. The inscription is 'Let all their souls rest in peace. For we shall never repeat the evil'. This inscription was contentious. But the authors of it refered to mankind never using nuclear arms again.... | ||
Peace Memorial Park
18 May 2003 | ||
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| With its famous Cenotaph and the A-Bomb Dome in the background. Seen from the top of the memorial museum. | ||
WW2 Memorial
13 September 2003 | ||
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| I went to IBC in Amsterdam for some meetings and went a bit around Amsterdam the night before the meetings.... | ||
WW 2 Memorial
31 May 2005 | ||
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Serena HollandMadison, Wisconsin USA / Wednesday, 13th February 2008 | ||
I am a nine old girl in the United State. I just finished reading Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes. It was good and it made me very sad when she died. I am very sorry for all the pain and suffering the Sadako and all the other children went through. I am glad she got some time with her family. I wish she could have finished her 1000 cranes. | ||
GladhysIndonesia / Sunday, 1st August 2004 | ||
I'm very sad to hear sadako's timeline story. I had to cry in my heart, because sadako's memorial and sad ending story. Poor her, she died in a young age. Her kimono that her mom gived before she is die, only become a sad dumb witness. Thank you, I hope you can know my feeling | ||
annaflorida / Friday, 5th September 2003 | ||
the story of sadako has inspired me.even though i never knew her hearinf her story makes me sad.poor her she had big dreams.i would of rathered me dead.i'm sure she was a great person. | ||
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