Oh wow! Hiroshima was absolutely amazing. It was quite an impact experience, because it showed me something completely new. Before, I had just known and learned about the war and the atomic bombs, but it was all just distant knowledge, removed from being anything but just old history to me. But visiting Hiroshima, seeing the Memorial Park, the Atomic Bomb Dome, the Peace Museum...it changed the way I see those events. It gave me more compassion and new understanding of how unimaginably great fear the Japanese people had to have felt. I now have an idea of how terrifying war can be. It was shocking to learn about the history in more detail, and the whys behind the bombing. August 6, 1945 at 8:15 am the world changed forever. Hiroshima was chosen out of the seventeen cities considered to be hit with an atomic bomb, because it was decided that it would have the greatest impact physically and psychologically, being that it was quite a metropolis of its time, as well as a huge educati...