The Travel Log

Where the journey meets the destination

Bringing Stories to LIfe
Each week, The Travel Log provides a snippet from our travels across North America and around the world. Each story is accompanied by photos that help bring the story to life.

Each page has five blog items. At the bottom of each summary page, you can get to the next series of items. And at the bottom of each story, you have a choice to go to the previous blog item, the next blog item, or to return to the summary page.

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A Remembrance Wish for Peace

Filed in: Hiroshima | National Peace Memorial for Atomic Bomb Victims | Japan | Remembrance | Peace Guest article by: Eric Bergman
The Genkuku Dome against a deep blue sky.
During our trip to Japan, we spent December 31 at Hiroshima, and a sombre afternoon at Hiroshima National Peace Memorial for the Atomic Bomb Victims.

We discovered a difference between war memorials in Japan and those in western nations. While we remember, try not to forget and remember our glorious dead, the Japanese focus on world peace.

It’s a lesson from which we all can learn.
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