Earlier today we went on another one of our adventure Mondays on the island. We went to the Himeyuri museum which honors the high school girls who were made nurses for the Japanese soldiers who were hiding in the caves. They were thrust into a very dangerous environment to say the least. Over half of the 222 school girls who were made nurses Himeyuri died. The devastation that took place in Okinawa amongst the people was because of the propaganda that the Imperialistic Japanese Military enforced upon the people. That is why the Okinawans are so ardently opposed to wars.
But near the memorial stone near the cave (first picture) there were thousands of paper cranes set up.
It is said that to string a thousand cranes stands for healing and hope.
The whole idea of the war and such young girls dying for a cause that they did not ever really sign up for does cause a sobering affect to fall on one.
But in all of this there can be no real assurance of hope apart from Jesus Christ.
Continue to pray for the island of Okinawa and the country of Japan as a whole as the people need to be shown their need for Christ's saving grace and the hope that we have in Him for this life and the next.
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