Staff writer
For Josephine Allan, the defining moment came when her home-stay grandmother, a survivor of the Aug. 6, 1945, atomic bombing of Hiroshima, shied away as the family gathered around to shoot off fireworks.
Allan, 19, joined six other current and freshly graduated high school students from Japan and six other countries in Hiroshima last week as guests of the Japan Return Program for a special program to encourage young people to study and talk about peace.