The following announcement was provided by Watertown Citizens for Peace Justice and the Environment:
Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 80th Anniversary of the Atomic Bombing
Saturday, August 9, 2025
7:00 PM – Silent Vigil, Music, Testimonials – Watertown Square
8:15 PM – Floating of the Candle Boats – MDCR Dock
Speakers: Owen Madus, Massachusetts Peace Action and Sensei Morris Sullivan, Buddhist Monk
Musicians: Sue-Ellen Hershman-Tcherepnin and Suzy Giroux
NEVER AGAIN – NO MORE HIROSHIMA and NAGASAKI!
NO MORE VICTIMS – ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS!
“Why do we stand in silence and float candle boats”?
*To remember the more than 210,000 killed, and the many more injured, by the U.S. nuclear attacks on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9 in 1945.
*To remember that the original five nuclear states have not taken serious action to abolish nuclear weapons, which has led India, Pakistan, North Korea and Israel to acquire nuclear weapons.
*To remember that the U.S. should sign the U.N. Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, the first legally binding international agreement that prohibits the development, testing, production, stockpiling, stationing, transfer, use and threat of use of nuclear weapons.
*To remember that the danger of nuclear war is ever present, and that without a powerful grassroots movement dedicated to the abolition of nuclear weapons, the unthinkable – another Hiroshima or Nagasaki – is possible.
Support the Back from the Brink Resolution to the Watertown City Council.
The Resolution calls on the U.S. to take steps toward nuclear disarmament.
Check watertowncitizen.org for date of Council hearing in the fall
Sponsored by Watertown Citizens for Peace, Justice and the Environment and Massachusetts Peace Action with the much-appreciated support of the New England American Friends Service Committee.
Visit www.watertowncitizens.org and www.facebook.com/WatertownCitizensPJE
For a listing of other activities remembering the events of August 6 and 9, visit www.masspeaceaction.org
Alternate Location in the Event of Rain: First Parish Watertown, 35 Church Street, Watertown
Go float candle boats on December 7.