US President, Barack Obama saluted survivors of the U.S. atomic bombing at Hiroshima, Japan.
Obama had a brief speech with the survivors who were in the audience for his remarks at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. One of the survivors stamped his cane emphatically while speaking to the president. Obama smiled as he listened to the survivors.
The president's interaction with survivors was highly
anticipated ahead of his historic visit. Obama is the first sitting U.S. president to visit Hiroshima.
However, Obama did not apologize for the
decision to bomb, but paid tribute to the victims and decried the
horrors of war.
Media Reports revealed that President Barack Obama signed a guest book and laid a wreath during his historic visit to Hiroshima and its memorial park.
He quotes as follows:
"We have known the agony of war. Let us now find the
courage, together, to spread peace, and pursue a world without nuclear
weapons."
Over 140,000 people died when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima during the twilight of World War II.
He also laid a wreath near the base of an arched memorial in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (shin-zoh ah-bay) says
President Barack Obama's visit to Hiroshima opens a new chapter in
reconciliation between the United States and Japan.
Abe is speaking at a wreath-laying with Obama in the city
where the U.S. dropped the first atomic bomb.
Abe says he sincerely respects Obama's courage in deciding to visit Hiroshima.
Abe says he sincerely respects Obama's courage in deciding to visit Hiroshima.
Abe says the tragedy of Hiroshima must not be repeated
again as he and Obama are determined to make the world free of
nuclear weapons, no matter how difficult that is to achieve.
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