Okinawa Peace Memorial Park After visiting the Ryukyu Glass Village, James and I headed a bit further south to see the Okinawa Peace Memorial Park. Located on Mabuni Hill, where the last battles took place on Okinawa, the park is dedicated to the 200,000 people that died in the fighting for control of the island. Of theses 200,000 people, 100,000 were Okinawan civilians caught in the crossfire. James and I went to a lookout point first where we had a wonderful view of the ocean. With such a serence view it was hard to imagine such a fierce battle happening here in 1945. We then walked through the stone monuments inscribed with the names of all those who died during the "Typhoon of Steal". There were 148,289 Okinawans, 75,219 Japanese from other prefectures, 14,006 Americans,
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