valuable flag...

The ancestor remembrance festival is one of the most important annual events  for the Japanese family.It is held over a few days in August.This period often means summer holidays.Many people return to their home towns.In my case, this town is my husband's hometown.So we don't need to return.We usually spend in my house in this period.

We welcomed my parents to my house and had a lunch party all together last Saturday.My husband's big sister's family also came to my house.We enjoyed eating lunch and chatting.
At that time, my father in law was talking about war.He is now 79 years old and he will be 80 next month.
He showed a flag to us.This is very old and valuable  flag.

To tell the truth, he had a plan to go to war as a soldier.He was 15 years old and very young boy.
In his friends and neignborhood  were sure  he would go to war.So they wrote their name to the flag and
they wished he was able to come back home safely.
However he didn't have to go to war because it was the end of war.

As we know,the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6 1945. The second was dropped
on Nagasaki three days later.It is said that the two bombs have caused nearly 400000 death as of September 2007, and many people are still sick today.
My mother in law's big sisiter who had already passed away 's husband never come back home  because
he went to the war as a soldier at that time. Too many people were died because of war.

My father in law said to us.
"I am fine but when I remembered at that time, I feel so sad.I am very sorry that many people are still sick today. Young generation don't know about war very well. I can't forget those days..."

If my father gone to war and never returned home,
my husband and children would not exist right now.

Historical events change our fate.
We must not forget the terrible war.
We should think about how to finish war.