These monuments and tombs are some of the many that stand in memory of those who fell at the hands of war. 
There are rows and rows of these walls that are covered on both sides with the names of many who gave their lives for their country.
Inside the museum there are no celebrations on the conquests of war. Instead it portrays the reality of wartime suffering and the attrocities of man's inhumanity to man.
In these journals are recorded some of the accounts of civilians who were victims of the Japanese who should have been their defenders.
At the end of WWII, the Battle of Okinawa was especially brutal and is recorded as the bloodiest battle of the entire war. When Japan signed it's peace treaty with the US they promised never to rise up against any other people and when the treaty ended they continued with a crusade of peace. Okinawa sends out a message to the world to "give peace a chance". Japan's army is officially called the Japan Self Defence Force.
We live in a time of great wickedness, but even so, Okinawa reminds us that war should be a last resort and should only be used in the defence of the innocent.
No comments:
Post a Comment