Lantern Lighting at Green Lake in Seattle To Commemorate The U.S. Bombing of Hiroshima

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

Today is the 77th anniversary of the dropping of the first atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, Japan by the United States effectively bringing to an end World War II. A second bomb however was dropped on Nagasaki 3 days thereafter. Japan subsequently surrendered on August 15th 1945.
An event commemorating this grave anniversary was held today at Green Lake in Seattle.

“FROM HIROSHIMA TO HOPE” ANNUAL LANTERN FLOATING PEACE CEREMONY @ GREEN LAKE ​

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Candle-lit lanterns will bring messages of peace and hope in this annual event that honors victims of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and all victims of violence. Lanterns will be provided and personalized with calligraphy by members of the Beikuku Shodo Kenkyu Kai (Japanese) and the Gurudwara Singh Sabha of Washington and Khalsa Gurmat School (Gurmukhi). The event will take place just south of the Seattle Public Theater (aka Bathhouse Theater), on Green Lake’s NW shore, at West Green Lake Drive North and Stone Ave North.​

2022 “FROM HIROSHIMA TO HOPE” ANNUAL LANTERN FLOATING PEACE CEREMONY @ GREEN LAKE — Wing Luke Museum​

 

[Esdraelon]

Had Japan's warlords "effectively ended" their efforts, the Fat Man would not have been used. Even after Nagasaki was destroyed, they still refused to surrender and their excuse was they wanted to protect the Mikado. Then HE delivered a speech surrendering and they had no way to deny the act.

 

[MAGA Macho Man]

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Today is the 77th anniversary of the dropping of the first atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, Japan by the United States effectively bringing to an end World War II. A second bomb however was dropped on Nagasaki 3 days thereafter. Japan subsequently surrendered on August 15th 1945.
An event commemorating this grave anniversary was held today at Green Lake in Seattle.

“FROM HIROSHIMA TO HOPE” ANNUAL LANTERN FLOATING PEACE CEREMONY @ GREEN LAKE ​

FAMILY PROGRAM​

Saturday, August 6, 2022 | 6 - 9 PM PDT | FREE, DONATIONS WELCOME​

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Candle-lit lanterns will bring messages of peace and hope in this annual event that honors victims of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and all victims of violence. Lanterns will be provided and personalized with calligraphy by members of the Beikuku Shodo Kenkyu Kai (Japanese) and the Gurudwara Singh Sabha of Washington and Khalsa Gurmat School (Gurmukhi). The event will take place just south of the Seattle Public Theater (aka Bathhouse Theater), on Green Lake’s NW shore, at West Green Lake Drive North and Stone Ave North.​

2022 “FROM HIROSHIMA TO HOPE” ANNUAL LANTERN FLOATING PEACE CEREMONY @ GREEN LAKE — Wing Luke Museum​

They weren't victims. They were much needed collateral damage in order to force them to surrender.

 

[gipper]

Yeah America is so great when it massacres defenseless women and children of a nation trying to surrender. We are so proud!

 

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

They weren't victims. They were much needed collateral damage in order to force them to surrender.

Do you think the people of Ukraine are not victims and are just collateral damage as well? Why or why not?

 

[Whodatsaywhodat.]

Yeah America is so great when it massacres defenseless women and children of a nation trying to surrender. We are so proud!

You must be a democrat.

 

[gipper]

You must be a democrat.

Dumb post, but typical of a duopoly dupe.

 

[Whodatsaywhodat.]

Dumb post, but typical of a duopoly dupe.

So that's a yes?

 

[BackAgain]

Yeah America is so great when it massacres defenseless women and children of a nation trying to surrender. We are so proud!

It wasn’t trying to surrender, stupid.

 

[toobfreak]

So that's a yes?

LESSON #1: If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck . . .

 

[Harpy Eagle]

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Today is the 77th anniversary of the dropping of the first atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, Japan by the United States effectively bringing to an end World War II. A second bomb however was dropped on Nagasaki 3 days thereafter. Japan subsequently surrendered on August 15th 1945.
An event commemorating this grave anniversary was held today at Green Lake in Seattle.

“FROM HIROSHIMA TO HOPE” ANNUAL LANTERN FLOATING PEACE CEREMONY @ GREEN LAKE ​

FAMILY PROGRAM​

Saturday, August 6, 2022 | 6 - 9 PM PDT | FREE, DONATIONS WELCOME​

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Candle-lit lanterns will bring messages of peace and hope in this annual event that honors victims of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and all victims of violence. Lanterns will be provided and personalized with calligraphy by members of the Beikuku Shodo Kenkyu Kai (Japanese) and the Gurudwara Singh Sabha of Washington and Khalsa Gurmat School (Gurmukhi). The event will take place just south of the Seattle Public Theater (aka Bathhouse Theater), on Green Lake’s NW shore, at West Green Lake Drive North and Stone Ave North.​

2022 “FROM HIROSHIMA TO HOPE” ANNUAL LANTERN FLOATING PEACE CEREMONY @ GREEN LAKE — Wing Luke Museum​

And yet somehow we think we have the god given right to tell other nations they are not allowed to have such weapons when we are the only nation to ever use one.

 

[Anathema]

Yeah America is so great when it massacres defenseless women and children of a nation trying to surrender

The problem is they weren’t trying to surrender. They were trying to get terms. That’s not surrender, that’s negotiation. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were our response to those negotiations.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Do you think the people of Ukraine are not victims and are just collateral damage as well? Why or why not?

Don’t crush that dwarf, hand me the pliers.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

I spent the day in the town where the pilot of the Enola Gay (named after his mother), Col. Paul Tibbets, went to high school. Western Military Academy.
Tibbets expressed no regrets in that very necessary mission, made necessary by Japanese murderous stubbornness.

 

[gipper]

The problem is they weren’t trying to surrender. They were trying to get terms. That’s not surrender, that’s negotiation. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were our response to those negotiations.

You’re uninformed like most Americans. Japan had been trying to surrender for months.

 

[gipper]

It wasn’t trying to surrender, stupid.

Proving once again, you know nothing.

 

[whitehall]

What happens when all this junk sinks? Will Green Lake get any greener?

 

[BackAgain]

Proving once again, you know nothing.

Proving once again that you are utterly retarded.

 

[gipper]

Proving once again that you are utterly retarded.

You offer nothing. Why bother?

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Yes it is good to remember how we paid Japan back for their attack on Pearl Harbor which set off the war in the pacific.