The Coalition for Peace Action will hold the Annual Commemoration of the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the Woodrow Wilson School Plaza on the corner of Prospect Street and Washington Road in Princeton on Wednesday, Aug. 6, the anniversary of the 1945 Hiroshima bombing.
Senator Jon Corzine (D-NJ) and U.S. Rep. Rush Holt (D-12) have been invited to speak and are tentatively scheduled to attend.
The ceremony will also feature two survivors of the Hiroshima bombing, Ryuma Miyanaga and Eiji Nakanishi. In addition, local singer/songwriter Billy Webster will provide music.
The event will begin with a bring-your-own picnic at 6 p.m. (no alcoholic beverages permitted). The picnic and the program will be on the Woodrow Wilson School Plaza near the fountain.
The program, which will include the speakers and musician noted above, is scheduled at the same location from 7 to 8:30.
The program will include a minute of silence to commemorate all victims of nuclear weapons and will conclude with floating candles on the Woodrow Wilson School’s fountain at dusk to parallel the custom that is observed at the river in Hiroshima on the same evening.
"Our reason for having this commemoration is to remember the absolute horror that nuclear weapons represent, and to recommit ourselves to working for the global abolition of nuclear weapons so such total destruction can never again be inflicted on anyone," said the Rev. Robert Moore, the coalition’s executive director.
