A-bomb Monument of the Hiroshima Municipal Girl’s High School
I was on my way to the Peace Memorial in Hiroshima and came across this memorial dedicated to the students who perished from the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima on August 8, 1945. The students had been helping to demolish a building when the bomb was dropped. All 544 students and eight teachers perished. There were students working in other parts of the city and the school lost a total of 679 people on that day. The girl in the center is holding a box with the formula for nuclear energy, E=MC2 as the US army did not allow the use of “A-bomb” so this inscription was chosen. I took this photo in 2015 and there were flowers. Families and relatives are still grieving.
