On May 27, 2016, a man visited Hiroshima and gave a speech at the city's Peace
Memorial Park,He began, “Seventy-one years ago, on a bright, cloudless morning, death
fell from the sky and the world was changed."
The man's name is Barack Obama. He became the first sitting U.S. president to
5 visit Hiroshima. It meant a lot to the city, to Japan, and to the world.
Before the speech, Obama visited the museum there. In its guest book, he left these
Words: