From Joseph Gainza of Marshfield:

Friends, I will be joining members of the Central Vermont Buddhist Peace Fellowship for their annual Mindfulness walk along the streets of Montpelier to commemorate the lives lost at the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945. It was the first use of nuclear weapons against a human population; the second and last (until this day) was three days later at Nagasaki, Japan.

We will meet at the lawn of the Kellogg Hubbard Library at 6:45 pm on Sunday, August 6 and walk to the Montpelier High School lawn near the river. We will then have an opportunity to say a poem, share our thoughts and feelings, and then launch little rafts of light into the river. This is an ancient Japanese tradition to commemorate the ancestors. Since the 1950s it has been used to commemorate the souls of the nearly half million people who died from the blasts and radiation of the two nuclear bombs.

Please join us as we remember the horrors that war brings and rededicate ourselves to the work of insuring that never again will a city or a people be destroyed through the fear and hatred which war breeds, and as we work for the total abolition of nuclear weapons.

Jan 8, 2025, 8 AM

Jan 8, 2025, 6:30 to 8:30 PM

Jan 8, 2025, 7 to 8:30 PM