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Tender

A worker tends the grounds of the Okinawa Peace memorial Park, at the Cornerstone of Peace memorial, a semi-circular avenue of stones engraved with the names of all people who died in the Battle of Okinawa, regardless of nationality, military personnel, or civilians. The monument was unveiled in 1995, and consists of 117 walls that spread out in concentric arcs. 69 of these walls have five folds and 48 of them have three folds, for a total of 1,212 faces displaying almost 250,000 names.

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Uploaded on June 27, 2021
Taken on December 14, 2018