The Price of Freedom
Today it's exactly 70 years ago that the first - and hopefully last - atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima forcing Japan to surrender.
It's something I look upon with mixed feelings.
I'm a pacifist so I'm firm in my principles against any form of war or violence.
In that sense I condemn throwing a bomb on drafted soldiers or innocent civilians equally, but on the other hand....
It meant freedom for my dear mother who was imprisoned in a Japanese War Camp in Indonesia* as a 16 - 19 year old girl separated and far away from her family.
Today I took my mother along to the graveyard to reminisce and shot this memorial field for those who fell in the war.
I had to stretch my hand as high as possible to also capture the shadow of the falling soldier on the grass and I'm really pleased with that subtle detail.
* Freedom for my mom in Indonesia came on august 15th 1945, so I'll post another relevant entry next week.
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