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Hiroshima remembered
This, says Peterborough’s Joyce Barrett, is something never to be forgotten, and the entire world has an obligation to remember the devastation caused by these atomic bombs. That’s why there will be a Hiroshima Remembrance on Friday, Aug. 6 at 9 p.m. at Little Lake in Peterborough, a brief meeting to remember the bombing. Joyce, the chair of Kawartha Ploughshares, a peace-promoting group, says beyond "just remembrance," they will use the evening to look at how to make the phrase "never again" be meaningful. "We can’t just say it, we have to do something about it. You can’t just hold hands and sing fuzzy warm peace songs. You have to act on specific things," she says. Joyce points to the ballistic missile defence program of the United States. She says Canadians should be opposing this, if for no other reason, than it will not make anyone safe. She says the program will simply lead to escalation around the world as other nations try to figure out how to overcome it. "To take action, you have to do so in your own community first. Write letters about specific things like this (the ballistic missile program) to MPs and newspapers," she says. Everyone is invited to meet at the T Wharf on
Crescent Street, just past the Peterborough Art Gallery. Candle
lanterns on the lake will be launched as a symbolic remembrance
of those who died.
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