Honona Tokumoto, a student of Okinawa City Yamauchi Elementary School, reads Poem for Peace during the 2022 Memorial Ceremony for All War Dead in Okinawa, at Peace Memorial Park, Okinawa, Japan, June 23, 2022. Every year, the Okinawa Prefecture Government selects a poem written by an elementary student with the theme of peace to be read at the memorial ceremony. Leaders from across Okinawa gathered during the ceremony to honor the lives that were lost during the Battle of Okinawa.

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