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Scenes from the 2010 ‘From Hiroshima to Hope’ ceremony at Green Lake

What do you think? (8 Comments) August 7, 2010 at 5:02PM

Lanterns were placed on Green Lake last night (Friday, August 6, 2010) at the annual From Hiroshima to Hope event, now in its 25th year at Green Lake Park.

The event is a remembrance of the victims of the bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki 65 years ago.

Maryam Borghey, of the National Iranian American Council, MC’d the event.  “This night is solemn,” she said.  “But it is also hopeful.  It is hopeful because it brought people together.”

Maryam Borghey:

The Seattle Kokan Taiko drum performance group:

Christina Garcia-Valdez, poet and member of El Centro de la Raza‘s creative writing group Hope for Youth:

Gene Tagaban:

The program concluded with a Buddhist Toro Nagashi lantern floating ceremony led by Kanjin Cederman of the Seattle Nichiren Buddhist Church:

Photo credit: Jay Friedman, gastrolust.com

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What do you think? (8 Comments)
  • David

    “The event is a remembrance of the victims of the bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki 65 years ago.”

    Really? No mention of the millions of Chinese, Koreans, Burmese, Filipinos, Indonesians who we killed by Japan? I wonder how they feel being left out….yet again.

  • David

    “who were killed”

  • LittleTandA

    The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

  • David

    It's hard to forgive when Japan refuses to admit or acknowledge the atrocities it committed in Asia from 1930-1945 and continues to use the a-bombs to cover up their own responsibility. Go speak to some Chinese and Koreans who lived under the Japanese, ask them how they feel about how the war ended.

    The weak deny their crimes, the strong admit them.