-- By Tom Phillips
Hiroshima is the only city in the world with a
trolley stop called "Atomic Bomb Dome," and I shuddered inwardly
every time we passed it. It's by the shell of a building just a
quarter-mile from the bomb blast, a building that somehow remained standing, though
everyone in it was killed instantly, vaporized by the heat.
Later it survived an effort by the local government to tear it down, to remove a symbol of the city's destruction. In the end Hiroshima decided to leave it standing, as a reminder -- a rare public protest in a country that usually prefers to cover things up.
