`` Ehime Maru '' accident 19 years Healing sorrowful sadness Uwajima Fisheries High School February 10 11:27
The training ship Ehime Maru of Uwajima Fisheries High School in Ehime Prefecture was sunk 10 days after a collision with a US submarine off the coast of Hawaii. In high school, survivors and students mourned nine victims.
The Uwajima Fisheries High School training ship "Ehime Maru" was sunk by a U.S. military submarine off the coast of Hawaii on February 10, 2001, killing nine students, teachers, and crew. Was.
On the 10th, 19 years after the accident, a memorial ceremony was held in front of the high school memorial monument, and a bell raised from the sunken hull rang at 8:43 am when the accident occurred, and about 280 people, including bereaved families and students, I silently mourned nine people.
Principal Seiji Takechi reads the names of the victims one by one, saying, "The great resentment and deep sorrow of the bereaved family still cannot be healed in 19 years. We must not let this accident be weathered. I am deeply reminded of this feeling. "
The people who attended were offering white chrysanthemums to the tribute and quietly praying. "I wasn't born at the time of the accident, but I must remember the dignity of my life and tell the juniors," said Yui Ninomiya, the second grade student council president. Was.