As soon as we got out of school, we boarded the Bullet Train to go to the Peace Park in Hiroshima. Although the International Peace Museum was closed by the time we got there, we walked around the site where the atomic bomb was dropped in 1945. The A-bomb Dome pictured here was left exactly as it stood after the bombing. Everyone inside it was killed instantly and it's a wonder this much of the building remains. It was very much like visiting Ground Zero in New York. I was glad to have the experience.