Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki

6:30 PM – Silent Vigil in Watertown Square

7:30 PM – Music/Testimonials at Charles River MDCR Dock

Suzy Giroux, Singer, Songwriter, and Activist

Sue-Ellen Hershman-Tcherepnin, Flutist, WCPJE President

Ray Matsumiya, Executive Director, Oleander Initiative  and Grandson of a Hiroshima bombing victim

Tod Gross and Jeanne Trubek, WCPJE Nuclear Disarmament Committee

All participants are encouraged to share reflections

8:30 PM – Floating of the Candle Boats

NEVER AGAIN – NO MORE HIROSHIMA and NAGASAKI!

NO MORE VICTIMS – ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS!

“Why do we stand in silence and float candle boats”? To remember –

*The more than 210,000 killed, and the many more injured, by the U.S. nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9 in 1945.

*That the danger of nuclear war is ever present and growing daily, and that  without a powerful grassroots movement dedicated to abolition of nuclear weapons,  the unthinkable – another Hiroshima or Nagasaki – is possible.

Sponsored by Watertown Citizens for Peace, Justice and the Environment (WCPJE)

We appreciate the support of NE American Friends Service Committee and Massachusetts Peace Action.

Visit www.watertowncitizens.org and www.facebook.com/WatertownCitizensPJE

For a listing of other activities remembering the events of August 6 and 9, visit www.masspeaceaction.org

Alternate Location in the Event of Rain: First Parish Watertown, 35 Church Street, Watertown