Special thank you to Allen Hallmark for his photos and commentary:

Seventy-one years ago the United States dropped an atomic bomb over Nagasaki, Japan on Aug. 9, 1945. Estimates are diffcult but at least 39,000 people were killed that day and tens of thousands more died in subsequent days, months & years from radiation poisoning and many more years later from cancers caused by exposure to the radiation of the bomb. In contrast to those ghastly figures, the closing ceremony of this year’s Hiroshima-Nagasaki Vigil in the Japanese Gardens of Lithia Park in Ashland, Oregon, was very peaceful & serene. We need to work to rid the world of nuclear weapons.

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Anti-Nuclear Activist Greg Boertje Interview on Jefferson Exchange
http://ijpr.org/post/anti-nuclear-activists-commemorate-hiroshimanagasaki

JPR, “Greg Boertje-Obed describes his activism and motivation.
It’s been 71 years since an impossibly bright light flashed over Hiroshima, Japan: the first use of a nuclear weapon in war. Thousands died there and at Nagasaki three days later.
It scared the world badly enough that nuclear weapons were not used in war again. But our country and others certainly built more of them.  Peace House in Ashland spent three days commemorating the Hiroshima-Nagasaki anniversary (August 6-9) with the help of anti-nuclear activist Greg Boertje-Obed. He was one of three activists arrested for breaking into a nuclear facility in Tennessee.”

Special thank you to Allen Hallmark for his photos and commentary:

Seventy-one years ago the United States dropped an atomic bomb over Nagasaki, Japan on Aug. 9, 1945. Estimates are diffcult but at least 39,000 people were killed that day and tens of thousands more died in subsequent days, months & years from radiation poisoning and many more years later from cancers caused by exposure to the radiation of the bomb. In contrast to those ghastly figures, the closing ceremony of this year’s Hiroshima-Nagasaki Vigil in the Japanese Gardens of Lithia Park in Ashland, Oregon, was very peaceful & serene. We need to work to rid the world of nuclear weapons.