Hiroshima/Nagasaki remembrance & potluck 8/6

August 6, 2023 6:00 pm

Please join PeaceWorks KC in our annual Hiroshima / Nagasaki Remembrance on Sunday, Aug. 6, at Loose Park pond (near Wornall Rd. and 53rd St.). Vegetarian potluck is at 6 PM (all are invited, whether or not you bring food); the program is at 7. Presenters will include Hiroko Komiya, principal of the Kansas City Japanese School; poet artist Erika Sakata; and Analisa Colom-Todd, who will speak about Japanese flower arranging. The latter two speakers will have products for sale. Hiroko Komiya, raised near Tokyo, will share about her 4^th-grade friend whose mother died of leukemia from the Hiroshima bomb radiation 11 years after the attack.

PeaceWorks Board member Breanna Crawford will reflect on the 1945 atrocity of the World War II bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, accenting their widespread radiation and generations-long impact. Theodore John, leader of the KC Veterans for Peace, will use a peace bell he made, ringing it 11 times to commemorate the World War I armistice at the 11^th hour of the 11^th day of the 11^th month in 1918.

If you have questions about this night of potluck, program, and yearning for peace, contact Henry Stoever at 913-206-4088, henrystoever@sbcglobal.net.

Past Hiroshima/Nagasaki Remembrance Ceremonies:

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Highlights: Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings

The Hiroshima-Nagasaki Remembrance this year included emcee Kimmy Igla and speakers Hiroko Komiya, Analisa Colom-Todd, Theodore John, Breanna Crawford, and Lakota singer Jason Swartley.

Morning Newspaper

Poet Eri Sakata recalls how her grandfather, in Japan, showed her the truth of the US nuclear bombing of Japan in 1945.

‘We gathered as a group conscience’ mourning lives lost at Hiroshima, Nagasaki

As I sat there on Aug. 6, in Loose Park, watching the rainbow in the pond’s fountain, an intense feeling of sadness washed over me.

If They Were Here

"We can never know the terror and fear they suffered," says Lu Mountenay in her poem in remembrance of the victims of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings in 1945.

Oppenheimer’s Critique

The Manhattan Project / Began as a creative challenge / Ending in a death wish of nothingness ...

Knotty Karma

Ron Faust, poet, heard Japanese-Americans say on Aug. 7, “We should never build another nuclear weapon.” He wrote a warning: “As long as we are stuck (with the world having 13,000 nukes), We will shorten the time of the Doomsday Clock.”

Recalling 1945 bombings of Hiroshima, Nagasaki

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Atsuki Mori talks about results of Hiroshima bombing

Atsuki Mori, from Osaka, Japan, now a nurse living in Warrensburg, MO, tells of her grandmother’s bravery and her grandmother’s fiance’s nephew who became an anti-nuke activist in ICAN.

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