European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 4, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 16 the stars and stripes August 1985 victims waiting for Aid in Hiroshima hours after bomb exploded Over City a photo by Sally Solo associated press with the annexation of a suburb ear Lier this the population of Hiroshima passed a million almost three times what it was on the morning a atomic bomb razed the City 40 years and perhaps five times what it was it was Rush hour in the City of when a b29 bomber named Enola Gay dropped the 4ton bomb that changed the it exploded in a giant fireball with temperatures reaching several thousand obliterating almost everything within a Range and triggering fire storms along with the blast and Shock destroyed the mushroom Cloud that would become the Symbol of the atomic age Rose several thousand and according to still Hung in the sky in late of turning strange colors in a setting we called it the atomic i never thought people would be Able to live Here said Ichiro who survived but with the loss of an Hiroshima today has modern office towers and Leafy it is a Center for the building of automobiles and Buddhist japans maritime self defense Force operates from a former Imperial Navy base on Hiroshima a few Miles to the West is the Marine air station at a former University philosophy has been a spokesman for or bomb Ever but he expresses concern that in the drive to the people of Hiroshima May forget the lesson of nuclear its connected to oblivion of the he said in an it looks like there is peace but with All this rebuilding and All this it hurts to see that people Are also now the City is big and you May int that a Good thing but when i i see that when something is big and Strong in material it is More easily Hiroshima never stopped functioning completely after the emergency Relief stations were set up in Skeleton Zed schools and other build the injured who could move left the City within Days on trains repaired with the help of surviving those staying behind had few medical Burn victims were Given water to ease their last a month Marcel a representative of the International committee of the red reached Hiroshima with 15 tons of Medicine from the general Headquarters of the Allied he also ordered planes to Spray Dot to kill the flies that swarmed about the t in the Mak Urazaki typhoon inundated Hiroshima with 20 inches of wiping out worlds first flt onic desert a photo feeding pigeons in peace memorial Park in in curved Cenotaph and dome of build ing Over which bomb is believed to have the first efforts toward but the flood also was a washing away much bomb de Bris and the lingering odor of corpses along with the shanties of survivors on the cites a new Start was made with the opening of the Hiro Shima restoration Bureau in january the next according to City leading citizens were called together to discuss opinions Painter Toshiro Fukui foresaw a Metropolis with wide the Kures Deputy Tomi wanted to keep the vast expanse of the burned out area intact As a memorial graveyard for the Sake of everlasting world Kenzo who had gone to High school in Hiro Shima before the bombing and has since become one of japans leading architects and Urban submitted a design for a wide Boulevard and a 30acre peace Park to serve As the Centrepiece of a City de voted to he and his supporters had to fight to preserve the Industrial promotion which had survived As a Shell even though it was almost directly at ground some wanted to take away everything that re minded of the Tange said in an the City Center was built largely on his plan under the peace memorial City construction Law and the now known As the bomb stands the Park houses the peace memorial museum and a Monument dedicated to Hiroshima in the four decades since the Core Complex of Park and Boulevard has become a True heart of the around which it said i am convinced that this Core played a very important Spiri Tual role in the reconstruction of Hiroshima into a City of a million it could be accomplished Only because the bomb razed the said More than 100 monuments Are scattered about including structures in the peace Are manmade others Are preserved pieces of bomb scorched Trees and one of the the chug Oku electric where a plaque says All 150 workers were killed when the bomb exploded 750 Yards is to be torn Down this year because it has outgrown the Seiji the company Deputy director of Gener Al said a 16floor building to House its current employees will replace the old five Story Struc there have been some protests against tearing Down the old which is just around the Corner from peace Sugita and the company feels it has a responsibility to leave something behind Well take some of the original lamps and doors and arrange them like a gallery in the lobby of the new with documents and it will be like a time capsule for future generations to see for hundreds and thousands of