6 August - Hiroshima Day

August 6 marks the anniversary of Hiroshima Day.

This is a day to:

• remember those who died and were wounded by the bombing Hiroshima
• remember all people of every nation who died and were wounded during World War II
• recognize the unique nature of nuclear weapons as a spiritual matter; as Bill Coffin would say, "Only God has the right to destroy all life on the planet. All we have is the power."
• pray for a world free from nuclear weapons
• work for a world free from nuclear weapons

Find prayers for Hiroshima Day from the Presbyterian Peacemaking Program.

Check out the Spring 2009 issue of Reflections, a publication of Yale Divinity School, that focused on nuclear weapons.

Find links to statements of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) on nuclear weapons and other resources.

Comments

[Chris Watson]

Look, Hiroshima was awful, but what the Japs did in Asia - the Asian Holocaust - was like 500 Hiroshimas. And, worse, it was an *ongoing* holocaust.

A single division of Japanese marines killed more people in Manila than died in Hiroshima (more than both bombings if you take some figures for the Manila massacre). That was just a drop in the bucket of Japanese war crimes.

If not for the use of nuclear weapons, millions more innocent Asians would have died, and Japanese too.

[swethasoman]

it is too cruel.