A somber ritual upon a mountaintop

SHIZUOKA, Japan -- Traditional Buddhist offerings to the deceased stand on a table during a B-29 memorial ceremony on Mount Shizuhata, Shizuoka, Japan, June 16, 2012. Americans and Japanese ceremony attendees honored those who died in Shizuoka on June 19, 1945, during a B-29 bombing raid and aircraft crash. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Samuel Morse)

PHOTO BY: Tech. Sgt. Samuel Morse

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