Sunday, August 8, 2010

Iva Motto's Cycle and some confusions

Some questions from children make us silent. Yesterday I am showing some photos of the bomb blast in Hiroshima to my children. It was very painful to convince them about the most innocent people dead after this attack. They want to know how war will come. How can we know the time and escape from the present place. In that pictures one was of a small rusted cycle. Story accompanied with the cycle as follows. Iva Motto was a small boy in Hiroshima who loved his small cycle as any other child. When the bomb blasted he was playing with his cycle, he dead sitting at his dearmost playmate. Cycle remained as a close monument to that little child who became a martyr of war fronts. The cycle is now kept at a museum in Japan.
After hearing the story Hari asked me 'Will you keep this cycle of me as my monument, If anyone will attack with a bomb' I told there will not be any bomb attacks and this happened long ago. But I am also not so sure of what I am saying...
To know more about the monuments after Hiroshima Bomb attack
Hiroshima Peace memorial Park
Story of thousand cranes, another haunting story of a little girl who tried to save her life by creating 1000 paper cranes.
More images

6 comments:

SG said...

Very touching post. Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is an unfortunate incident. Innocent people paid with their lives for their leaders' arrogance.

AswathiBabu said...

Thanks SG for dropping by...

Joseph Pulikotil said...

Hello Aswathi:)

It makes me happy to read that you are making your child aware of the horrors of war. I hope there will not be any more world wars. Of course there is no need for a world war now.Even a war between India and Pakistan can result in mammoth disaster to both countries since both have nuclear bombs.

I tried to locate the photos of Atham you have posted but I did not succeed. I will try with a little more patience and hopw to see those phots as early as possible.


My best wishes to you and your wonderful family for a very happy Onam:)
Joseph

AswathiBabu said...

Thanks sir for such wonderful comments...

Jayashree said...

Questions like this are the hardest to answer, but I think it is necessary to make children aware of what is and could happen in the world around them.
A very happy Onam to you and your family, Ashwathi.

AswathiBabu said...

Jayasree many many thanks for you...sometimes its very difficult to understand them about the situations...If you have any such moments pls share with me...

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