Students from Tinian Island, where the Enola Gay lifted off, visit Hiroshima
Jun. 21, 2010
by Yoko Nitta, Staff Writer
On June 17, a group of nine from Tinian Junior Senior High School on Tinian Island of the Northern Mariana Islands (under U.S. dominion) in the Pacific Ocean arrived in Hiroshima and toured Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, among other sites. Tinian is the island from which the Enola Gay, a U.S. B-29 bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, took off. Students from Koryo High School in Asaminami Ward, a sister school of Tinian Junior and Senior High Schools, guided the students from Tinian.
The students from Tinian read each description of the displays at Peace Memorial Museum and seemed to hold their breath in front of the "Human Shadow Etched in Stone." Through their tour of the museum, they came to grasp of the damage caused by the atomic bombing.
Richeena Farrell, 16, a second-year student at Tinian Senior High School said that her heart ached for the victims, and that she thought what she had heard in her history class--that the atomic bomb enabled an early end to the war--was wrong.
Koryo High School and Tinian Junior and Senior High Schools have maintained ties as sister schools since 2005. They have held continuing exchanges, such as Koryo High School sending students to a ceremony held on Tinian Island on August 6. The students from Tinian are staying in Hiroshima until June 20.
(Originally published on June 18, 2010)
On June 17, a group of nine from Tinian Junior Senior High School on Tinian Island of the Northern Mariana Islands (under U.S. dominion) in the Pacific Ocean arrived in Hiroshima and toured Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, among other sites. Tinian is the island from which the Enola Gay, a U.S. B-29 bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, took off. Students from Koryo High School in Asaminami Ward, a sister school of Tinian Junior and Senior High Schools, guided the students from Tinian.
The students from Tinian read each description of the displays at Peace Memorial Museum and seemed to hold their breath in front of the "Human Shadow Etched in Stone." Through their tour of the museum, they came to grasp of the damage caused by the atomic bombing.
Richeena Farrell, 16, a second-year student at Tinian Senior High School said that her heart ached for the victims, and that she thought what she had heard in her history class--that the atomic bomb enabled an early end to the war--was wrong.
Koryo High School and Tinian Junior and Senior High Schools have maintained ties as sister schools since 2005. They have held continuing exchanges, such as Koryo High School sending students to a ceremony held on Tinian Island on August 6. The students from Tinian are staying in Hiroshima until June 20.
(Originally published on June 18, 2010)
