It has been 9 years and 9 months since the Great East Japan Earthquake in 11 days.
In Natori City, Miyagi Prefecture, a mother who lost her son in junior high school due to the tsunami visited the grave and offered a handmade bento that his son loved.
Yukari Okawa, who lives in Taihaku Ward, Sendai City, lost her son, Shun, who was in the second year of junior high school in the Yuriage district of Natori City, where she lived at the time of the earthquake (52), in the tsunami (14 at the time).
His mother, Mr. Okawa, offers handmade bento boxes every month on the anniversary of his death. On the 11th, he visited Shun's grave in Natori City, handed flowers, and then quietly joined hands with the bento boxes. Was there.
The lunch box is packed with side dishes such as meat rolls with cheese and omelet that Shun loved.
At that time, Mr. Shun was an ace in the baseball club of a junior high school, so the figure of Mr. Shun playing baseball is engraved on the gravestone.
Mr. Okawa was stroking the tombstone and talking to him, "It's already December, isn't it?"
Mr. Okawa said, "I can't forget that I was pleased with the lunch box when I was playing baseball, and I make lunch boxes on the anniversary of my death. I lived thinking" I'm sorry "that I was the only one who survived. However, recently I've come to be able to say, "I'll do my best to live a long life for my mom, even for Shun." I think I've been able to sort out my feelings recently. I'm calm when I come to the grave because I have Shun. " ..