Hello @ErmesT
Thank you for visiting Hiroshima. I believe this is the biggest reason to visit Japan.
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Thank you for reading my post, @Onkarjadhav . I am happy that you were able to get all the details of it.
Yes, remember is the only way that we have to avoid to repeat the same mistakes.
This is more important when most of the planet act like if they already forgot what our history is telling us, and this is the deep reason of my post.
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@ErmesT Beautiful post. I havenāt been to Japan, but as you recall Auschwitz I can imagine the atmosphere at this place -full of emotions, where you can stop for a while and think what is really important in life and why still such cruelty exists in this World. These kind of memorials are established to remember and hopefully not to repeat human mistakes from the past.
Thank you for sharing.
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You are welcome, @PrasadVR .
Iām happy that my post was able to touch you. It wasnāt easy to find the proper words to share how deeply emotional it was for me to be there.
Thanks
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Dear CM @ErmesT Sir, believe me, when I read your post, it deeply touched my heart, feeling nervous and my palms sweaty. I can hardly imagine the emotions you must have felt at that place. I pray to God that such a horrible thing should never happen again.
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The beauty of this community is that we discover places through the posts written by others, @SilvyC , like I discovered the beautiful Dawn Avatar Robot cafƩ in your post .
Sometimes I believe that the emotions should be shared in a soft way, especially for places that are extremely touching, like the memorial area of Hiroshima. It was the sweetness and delicacy of that girl that struck me and inspired the words of this post. Without her perhaps I would have written it another way. Letās say I wanted to listen to her silence, and I tried to tell it here.
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Dear @ErmesT ,
Thank you for sharing about your visit to Hiroshima.
It made me think of when I went to Holocaust memorials too. Places with such terrible associated memories that are hard to understand.
I thought the part about the woman praying alone in the crowd showed well what those memorial places are about.To remember what happened so it doesnāt happen again.
Visiting places like that is important as we tend to forget hard lessons from history.
Thank you for the meaningful post paying respect to those who suffered. I hope the message of peace from Hiroshima continues guiding us to get along non-violently.
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Thank you for reading and commenting on my post, @Annaelisa , and sorry for my late reply.
I agree with you: if they would listen.
Thatās why I believe that writing and talking about that subject is important: to give them something to listen. Peace is a powerful word, but we should get used to use it, loudly.
Too many times the world is silent, silently suffering. Our silence give space to the loud of who is mentioning enemies, where the enemy is everyone different from us. Comments about racial differences, sexual differences, skin colour, and so on, are the roots to start to consider an enemy everyone that seems to be different from us.
Slowly they become enemies, something to eradicate, and the word WAR become the common word used. Holy war, war of liberation, war against those who invade us (and who are often someone who is fleeing from hunger), war against those who are different. War becomes the watchword, instead of understanding, acceptance and tolerance. Changing these words is the first thing to do, which is why we need to remember what war leads to: hatred, destruction and death. For this reason it is important to remember, and to remember it is important that these places exist, to help us remember what, fortunately, many of us have not experienced in person.
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ALLE SIND LETZTENS ENDE DIE VERLIERER.
Meiner Meinung nach lenken auch viele Aggressoren so von Problemen im eigenen Land ab aber was kƶnnte man mit dem sinnlos verpulverten Geld nicht alles fĆ¼r die Menschen im eigenen Land bewirken.
Im Ć¼brigen stimme vollkommen zu.
Es wird Zeit dass die Friedensbewegung Weltweit wieder in Gang kommt. Menschen mĆ¼ssen sich viel mehr in Toleranz anderer Ć¼ben.
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Such a moving experience @ErmesT ā¦ I havenāt been there but I can feel the ambience and vibe. I hope I can be back to Japan and visit Hiroshima. Thank you so much for sharing it.
I recently came across the Peace Flame erected in Wellington Royal Botanic Garden by the Japan Society in Wellington, New Zealand. Such a wonderful place and perfect spot for some peaceful moments and observation.
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Ciao @ErmesT . Leggere il tuo post ĆØ stato un momento di raccoglimento, si sentiva il silenzio meditativo su un orrore inimmaginabile. Grazie per aver condiviso la tua esperienza.
@ErmesT ,I really enjoyed this read. Respecting others through examples such as this deteriorates the negativity in the World 
@ErmesT , I saw this post a while ago but didnāt have the courage to read it (no need to explain, I know you understand why). At last, Iāve come to it.
Thank you for the thoughtful post, your awareness and tactfulness, particularly regarding the girlās feelings. That girl reminds me of myself, doing very similar things in the places commemorating victims and damages of wars.
Today, Iāve watched a fresh video of my native town heavily ripped by the current war. What an irony! There, I saw one of those memorials I used to visit every year - away from the crowds, alone and in silence - to honour the memories, to thank for the peace, and to pray for no more wars. Lilies of the valley, poppies, or lilacs accompanied meā¦ To add a finishing touch to the picture, an air raid alert started while I was writing this comment.
If or when I visit Japan, Hiroshima is one of my desirable destinations. As a war memorial, but also as a city suffered from radiation. The latter is another topic Iām serious about.
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What a beautiful and heartfelt post @ErmesT . 
Your story is so well written- love how you start with the snippet of the visitor lost in prayer- it instantly pulled us into the story. The title captivated me too. Excellent writer!
The photos along with the quotes and the message of memory, meditation, and peace are truly touching. 
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Thanks for posting here, and sorry for the really late reply.
@Gezendunyali , how not to agree with you, thatās why I wanted to add two places in my post:
Now I want to add another one: Mother and Baby in the Storm . In my review I wanted to say āThe sculpture refers to the protection of the mother, and has a profound meaning, as this protection was unfortunately useless in the āstormā caused by the atomic bomb. The vain and instinctive gesture should make us think, in a world where war no longer distinguishes between children and adults, soldiers and civilians.ā
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Thank you so much, @Globe_trotter_Ish , please forgive me for the so late reply.
In this post I tried to find the words to recreate that intense moment.
The moment was very moving. Itās as if that girl had a bubble of silence around her, which isolated her from the tourists around her. When I saw her I ideally entered her bubble. There she was, the destroyed dome, her silent prayer. There were no more tourists, there were no more photographers, there was only silence.
When she left the noise and movement returned, I had to go and isolate myself along the river for a few minutes, to try to find peace and serenity again.
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Iām responding with only 20 days of delay, @Denise_Barlock , but my feeling about the place is the same.
I deeply wanted to be there, so thanks to @KarenVChin for organizing our trip so well.
I am learning from the other Local Guides about the places that I havenāt time to visit, and in my mind I am already planning another visit in Japan.
But for sure I would like to visit Hiroshima again.
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Of course @ShailendraOjha , we can pray, but my feeling id that we need also to remember the history, we need to remember the error, otherwise other innocent people will die.
Innocent people die every day, because we often do not remember, or better, we do not learn, from the the mistakes made in the past
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Yes, @YasumiKikuchi , for me Hiroshima was āthe biggest reasonā, but your country is so beautiful and rich of culture and history that there are a lot of other reasons to visit it
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Hello @ErmesT ,
Thank you for praising Japan! and I agree that there are other attractions.
Hiroshima is one of the key points in Japanese history. Actually, I will be visiting Hiroshima next spring to guide a friend of mine. Itās been 15 years for me. We all burst into tears when we enter the park, so we always bring a handkerchief.
Listed below are our short trips. On the one hand, the battleship Yamato, which was the reason for the Hiroshima massacre, and the naval headquarters base are places that symbolize Japanese spirituality.
Hiroshima short trip list
https://maps.app.goo.gl/17gr2fX2b15pLXA5A
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