Community Corner
HIROSHIMA DAY REMEMBRANCE
Amid a backdrop of ongoing tensions
over potential nuclear weapons programs in Iran, known nuclear
weapons programs in North Korea, congress voting to weaken nuclear
nonproliferation safeguards in a deal with India, and the United
States abandoning its international commitments with funding for new
forms of nuclear weapons … the Connecticut Coalition For Peace and
Justice (CCPJ) and the Unitarian and Quaker Meeting Houses announce a
remembrance ceremony marking the 69th Anniversary of the United
States nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A call will be made
for "No First Use of Nuclear Weapons … Ever Again."
The remembrance ceremony will be held at 7:00 pm Wednesday, August
6 at the Unitarian Society of Hartford, 50 Bloomfield Avenue,
Hartford. The event will be preceded by a pot-luck that starts at
5:30 PM. Bring your picnic basket and we will provide lemonade
and chips.
Each year residents from Hartford and the area surrounding gather
to remember the first use of nuclear weapons. The utter devastation
of the two Japanese cities will be recalled and the dread that due to
technological advances, much worse destruction could be rained down
upon civilians with unimaginable consequences. In past years,
candle boats have been floated on the Connecticut River to signify
the passing of the souls of the dead into the land beyond or we lit
candles while in silent reflection on the Meeting House lawn.
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