48. Telegraph & Telephone Carrier Wave Department Staff Monument
I wish I could hear your voice
With a card inserted into a phone.
Since that August morning
Where are you?
Tell me, please!
Explanation
Fifty-two people are recorded as A-bomb victims.
A poem on the monument which was written by Hideki Nakai, manager of the department then, reads:
Alas, Hiroshima!
No light is seen
But the Milky Way.
The explanation says:
When night fell, lying on the roof in the dark, I came to count the number of the dead.
The number of little twinkling stars was increasing, as if I had been following the souls of the dead under the sky. Since then, silver stars have become among my favorites.
Location : Hijiyama Hon-machi, Minami-ku