The "Ohanashi Kujira" (Talking Whale) group holds gatherings at the Dawn Center called the "Women's Pacific War: Readings of Memoirs and Stories of Their Experiences." The objective of these gatherings is to hand down the stories to children so such a terrible war will not be repeated. At the gatherings, we first read memoirs from the war, and then people who experienced the war first hand tell their stories. We want children to know what they would go through during a war and how heartbreaking their experiences would be. After, survivors from the war talk with the children and young people. Questions from the children like "why the rain after an air attack was black" are introduced and answered. The children are then asked to write their impressions and share them with other people. Examples of these impressions are; "I understood that war is scary and you are helpless in war," "I feel that there are more than a few men who want to have nuclear weapons because they believe in force against force. It is women who bear and raise children. Women have to protest against war and nuclear weapons," "It was great that I could listen to the stories from the people who actually experienced the war. It would have been different hearing it from somebody else." As a gathering ends, we feel that all the people participating, including the children, are united by a strong will towards peace. It worries us that the writers of the memoirs are aging, and there are more and more writers that we are not able to contact. But at the same time, it strongly motivates us to continue the gatherings so that their war experiences won't be
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