[Hac-announce] Fwd: Hiroshima and Nagasaki Commemorations

[Richard Siddall]

Nina Stein mentioned this at the HAC monthly meeting on Monday...

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From: 	Nina Stein <nstein01 at gmail.com>

You are invited, by the Greater New Haven Peace Council, to attend the 
73rd commemoration of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.  
The Hiroshima commemoration will occur on Monday, August 6 at 8:00 am at 
the War Memorial Flagpole in the New Haven Green, and the Nagasaki 
commemoration will be on Thursday, August 9 at 11:00 am at the Amistad 
Statue in front of City Hall.

Each will consist of a silent vigil followed by poetry readings.  You 
are invited to bring a poem or reading.  We are asking participants to 
wear something that is black (as a symbol of mourning) and we will be 
giving everyone white flowers to hold (as a symbol of peace).  At the 
conclusion of the Nagasaki ceremony, the flowers will be brought to the 
Hibakujumoku Gingko Tree planted at the UN West River Peace Garden.  
This tree is a sapling from a survivor tree of the Hiroshima bombing.

For more information contact Nina Stein: nstein01 at gmail.com 
<mailto:nstein01 at gmail.com>.

Nina