“We just want a normal daily life” –nursery school parents’ association request a stop to flights over the nursery school after U.S. military helicopter part falls

December 12, 2017 Ryukyu Shimpo Digital Edition

 

In connection to the fall of a U.S. military helicopter part on the roof of Midorigaoka Nursery School in Nodake, Ginowan, the nursery school parents’ association visited Vice Governor Moritake Tomikawa at the Prefectural Office on the afternoon of December 12 and requested that the prefectural government urge the Japanese and U.S. governments to cease flights until the cause of the accident is uncovered and to stop U.S. military helicopter flights over nursery schools.

After U.S. military aircraft part falls on nursery school, a representative of Midorigaoka Nursery School (right) presents a written petition to Vice Governor Tomikawa at 12:43 p.m. on December 12 at the vice governor’s reception room at the Prefectural Office (photograph by Daisuke Nakagawa)

 

 

The parents said that the problem is not whether the particular aircraft part fell in this instance, but that such problems would not occur to begin with if aircraft didn’t pass over the school, and said that they just want their children to be able to live normal lives and be able to play outside without incident.

 

The vice governor read a document with parents’ comments that was attached to the petition and said, “I can clearly see that the children are experiencing great fear and have suffered psychological trauma.

The prefectural government hopes to do our best to respond to your request that flights over the nursery school be stopped.”

Members of the nursery school parents’ association make a tearful plea to Vice Governor Tomikawa to uncover the cause of the accident in which a U.S. military helicopter part appeared to fall on a nursery school at 12:52 p.m. on December 12 at the vice governor’s reception room at the Prefectural Office (photograph by Daisuke Nakagawa)

A mother living in Aragusuku, Ginowan said she was surprised when her one-year-old daughter, who attends the nursery school, said, “Mama, it’s ‘boom boom!’” when a U.S. military aircraft flew over their house.

 

The petition presented to Vice Governor Tomikawa explained that it was a shock to think that the incident remained fresh in the memory of even a one-year-old child who could not yet even speak.

 

(English translation by T&CT and Sandi Aritza)

 

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