*Hypocenter near the museum

It was a hot and humid day. 

On 5th July 2016, we visited Nagasaki with our niece from Akola, Maharashtra, who were in Japan on her summer holiday. 

Our main purpose was to show her Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum, and as a sensitive youth, she received the deep message from each and every exhibit, symbols of the extreme horror and cruelty upon the human beings by the same human beings.  It was evident because she didn't want to be left alone in the dimmed, silent and empty "prayer zone" of the museum as if she was feeling the spirits of the victims floating around us. In fact, the museum building keeps plain "water places" at every corner, to solace the souls of people who craved for the water before taking the last breaths due to the terrible heat caused by bombing. 

As we came out from the air-conditioned museum to proceed to the peace park and the hypocenter, we were exposed to the scorching afternoon sunbeam and uncomfortable humidity. It was perhaps the best timing as we could naturally imagine the similar weather on the morning of 9th August 1945. 

Soon we became dreadfully thirsty, and it was easy for us to access to one chilled water bottle from any of the nearby vending machines or convenient stores. The peace, how it sounds simple, but how quickly we tend to forget until we lose it?
 

At the Nagasaki Peace Memorial Park (5th July 2016)