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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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