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If your gifts came Publishing and Media Design Writers from overspending. from stores that carry a multitude of different ChiHon Kim Assess the situation Shoji Kudaka types of items, this might free up your budget Takahiro Takiguchi Make sure you have the funds to pay Ok, you didn’t plan throughout the year to put down cash if you can pay for groceries or in December for larger bills, and now you Layout Designers credit card bills or household items with the gift card. have a situation on your hands. While this Ayako Kamio Adding a line in your December budget You can also check on reward points Yukiyo Oda may be a time you’d like to ignore the total Yuko Okazaki to pay for higher credit card costs is a smart you’ve accumulated and apply them towards cost, that’s only going to cause you a head- Kayoko Shimoda way to plan ahead. Many of you are using the items in the budget that will benefit your pay- ache in the long run. 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Colored streams and the the attack shows the horrific injuries suffered by the beautiful billboard call for peace. Photo by Rebecca Holladay, victims in the blast. Photo by Lance Pescosco, Kinnick High Yokota High School School Hiroshima’s Peace Park is emotional trip of a lifetime BY LANCE PESCOSO, The word “stranger” is almost that remain to tell the story of devastation as a means to end- with the names of all the victims ECHOES (KINNICK HS NEWSPAPER) not enough however, as for the their last moments are the trin- ing World War II in the Pacific whose lives were claimed by the first time, I faced the countless kets, toys and scraps of clothes makes any American deserving bomb. YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE – As images of innocent people with donated by the victim’s families. of the title “murderer.” In the eye of the monument an American stepping into the seared flesh, tear-filled eyes and Each of these exhibits has a tale; But when I asked a young rests the Peace Flame which sits Peace Museum in the heart of faces pleading “make the pain each tale has a victim. Japanese man in the park nick- in the middle of a square foun- Hiroshima’s Peace Park, I have stop.” Knowing that Americans – named Rara-Chan about who tain, awaiting the day when the never felt more like a stranger to Few survivors of the attack my people, my home – dropped was to blame for the tragedy, he world will no longer know the this foreign land. are still alive, and the only things a bomb that caused all this said, “This is everybody’s fault, threat of atomic annihilation. I think. Everybody decided to A Belgian visitor to the park have a war, and this is the con- named Edith claimed that the sequence.” most impactful monument was I visited the Peace Museum during an outing in November the A-Bomb Dome, the only re- as part of the Department of De- maining structure near ground fense Education Far-East Jour- zero. nalism Conference. “It is the fact they conserved Despite my parents being sta- it, because they were not sure tioned in Japan att Yokosu- okosu to keep it some ka Naval Base, years after the this was my bomb,” she first time to visit COMMENTARY said. the Peace Park, At the base which beckons of the monument, I watched tourists world-wide who seek children no older than 10 run the true story behind the horrific and play, completely unaware event that unfolded Aug.