Hirsoshima

As I posted before, Hirsoshima was definitely emotional. We spent the day at the memorial sites, trying to wrap our heads around the destruction and loss the city once endured. The picture to the right is the "Atomic Dome," a former government/millitary office. When the bomb was dropped, it was detonated directly above this building...somehow (they say because of the physics of the explosion), the building survived the blast, its "dome" still intact. For years it stood as a crumbling and dangerous reminder of the attack until locals turned it into a memorial site. It is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is at the entrance to the memorial park in the center of Hiroshima.