"A dragonfly flitted in front of me
and stopped on a fence.
I stood up, took my cap in my hands,
and was about to catch the dragonfly
when..."
Hiroshima is a city on which an atomic bomb was dropped.
Hiroshima is a city with many memorials for the lives lost.
Hiroshima is a city which continually seeks peace.
Everyone, please look at Hiroshima's path over the last century.
Distant memories, bitter remorse and alarm at an age past.
Everyone, please, look at what the atomic bomb brought.
Suffering, pain, anger, and apprehension toward an uncertain future.
...Hiroshima,
in this nuclear age, will continue holding high the flame of hope.
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