This week’s DP Photo Challenge is Spare.
This is a building spared from the destruction by the atomic bomb.
Anybody walks past it would be thrown into deep reflection of what has happened on that fateful day in 1945.
This building in Hiroshima was almost the only building that stood up and preserved.
Many questions were asked and still unanswered – why did the tragic war start and why such tragic measure was used to end the war?
The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind.
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Seems like the obvious question is why did this building survive when the others didn’t?
This is a shell structure designed by German (?) engineers, presumably it is more blast pressure resistant.
What an bombastic response 😀
A response to Obama visiting the place recently.
Very poignant my friend.
Thank you, Cate!
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Thank you!
Such a haunting monument. It’s as if this building stood in sheer defiance. You say it well!
It is a living symbol to warn about war just as a crashed car by the side of the road warning about reckless driving!
Very sad indeed,and yet,people seem to have learnt nothing from history and are still making war all over the globe!
I understand conflicts / wars are classified by levels. Are we having class 3 conflicts so as to reduce a class 5 war? Or a class 3 conflict will make a class 5 war closer to happen, I don’t really know. Please note I forget how these are classified.
Beautiful photo; I would love to see Hiroshima one day. We can learn so much from what happened in that city.
The Japanese see themselves as sufferers of WWII but their invasion have also made millions of people suffered.
I would imagine. Call me crazy, however, I have always wondered what it would be like to see the war from the other side. I know who was “good” and who was “bad”. I just always wonder about the other guys. History has always been fascinating to me.
We all need to learn from history.
Agreed.
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Like the saying: ‘The one thing man has never learned from history is to learn from history.’ It seems war has been happening as far back as we can remember, in different countries with different peoples fighting different peoples. It seems to be deep in the human psyche. It’s baffling why, still, in this day and age men cannot sit down and talk.
Hope that one day the world will be a peaceful place – but this could be wishful thinking.
I think you’re right Michael
Thank you, Jude!
Thanks for the image Michael. A haunting reminder of the atrocities of war, and one that our generation will not easily forget. I will be visiting Hiroshima later this month at part of a four week exploration of Japan.
Have a great trip, safe travels!
I had seen that building before. IN B&W photographs. Yours is more… poignant? Maybe because you took it only recently.
I have glimpses of that when Obama visited it recently; my picture was taken only two years ago.
There is a burned-down church in Berlin (forgot the name) that was left as is, as a reminder of war’s destruction.
They are just like wrecked cars by the side of the road, to remind people on driving safely.
Yes. I hadn’t thought of that. You’re right. Problem is after a while peolple just don’t see the wrecked cars… 😦
After a while, people forgot about the wars as well!
‘Xactly. 😦
At least 2 generations have past since the last world war.
Yeah. At least. So now nobody remembers and all are ready to start again. 😦
So many countries now have the power of destroying others, it is quite frightening!
It is. Keeping the memories alive is the only prevention. 🙂
The world leaders are usually the determining guys; let them not forget the wars.