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The monument to those who died from the Chugoku-Shikoku
Public Works Of-fice of the Ministry of Home
Affairs (now called Chugoku District Construction
Bu-reau of the ConstructionMinistry) is lo-cated
at the site of A-bomb Dome. At the time of
the explosion,this branch of-fice occupied
a room is the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial
Promotion Hall(the A-bomb Dome)and was hit
directly by the bomb . The monument, built
in memory of the 52 who were killed at work,
is made of natural stone, 1.2 meters high
and 1.5 meters wide. Standing in the shade
of trees beside the dome, the monument has
a memorial poem handwritten by Ichiro Abe
who was then head of the office.gThose who
were sacrificed to the A-bomb form the foundation
for a more peaceful worldhThe inscription
on the back of the monument reads, gWhile
working as volunteers, there 52 employees
of the Chugoku-Shikoku Public Works Office
attached to the Ministry of to Home Affairs
were killed by the A-bomb on August 6, 1945.
They rest here, the foundation of a peaceful
world. August 6, 1954. The employees of the
Chugoku-Shikoku District Construction Bureau
of the Constryction Ministry.h
These people whose vocation was in
gconstructionhmet their deaths as they
were involved in gdestruction,h the demolition
of buildings of for fire-breaks in preparationfor
bombing raids.
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