When I was little, my dad loved driving his car. Sometimes he would take us to Memorial Cross. He said it was where he used to take my mom on dates.
I had never visited on dates, but the Memorial Cross gave me chances for meetings with Americans related to the war.
When I started thinking that I wanted to build a memorial for POWs. Unfortunately, people in my hometown weren’t interested in my idea.
Then I realized that I didn’t know much about the Memorial Cross, which is a war-related memorial that already exist but I didn’t care much about it. Neither did the people in my hometown.
It is one of the dating or walking spots. I realized that they didn’t care much about the lives of those who were in the Korean War. I went to the Ward Office of Kokura, but I couldn’t get details or information.
No, even Japanese lives of the Pacific War, much. already.
In Mojiko, there is the Moji World Peace Pagoda, which was built in 1958. When I visited the Pagoda in 2012, I realized that the Pagoda had been supported by veterans and their family of the Burma front of the Pacific War. Yes, I didn’t know it, even though I often saw the pagoda while driving.
And in 2012, most of the veterans and their family members had passed away or were very old, so the pagoda was in a difficult situation.
Furthermore, I found another memorial grave for the French people of the Shimonoseki Campaign in 1864. I didn’t know it, not even the history.
I began to understand that it was really difficult to build the memorial and the meanings and topics of war-related things between people.
My English is not very good, and sometimes I hesitate to write how and what, but I have many things I want to tell. Especially, the wonderful meetings and experiences while traveling and researching war-related topics.
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