Miyamori Elementary School hosts a memorial service for 1959 Okinawa F-100 crash

Miyamori Elementary School hosts a memorial service for 1959 Okinawa F-100 crash

Students from Miyamori Elementary School placing 1000 paper cranes and flowers by the Nakayoshi Jizo (Friendly Stone Statue) erected within the school grounds, taken at 8:27 a.m. on June 29 at Miyamori Elementary School in Ishikawa, Uruma City.


 

June 29, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo Digital Edition

 

On June 29, a memorial service for the 1959 Okinawa F-100 crash was hosted at the Miyamori Elementary School by the student council.

It has been 59 years since a jet fighter plane crash landed due to poor maintenance in the residential areas and Miyamori Elementary School in Ishikawa, Uruma City.

About 550 students attended the memorial service.

 

The student representative placed flowers and 1000 paper cranes by the Nakayoshi Jizo (Friendly Stone Statue), a monument carved with the names of the 18 people that lost their lives in the accident.

 

Student council member Yochina Ikemiya, 11, said, “We cannot let a tragic accident like this happen ever again. I would like to pass down the story of the accident to younger generations and to those who don’t know about it.”

 

(English translation by T&CT and Chelsea Ashimine)

 

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