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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Saturday marked a somber time successful satellite history. It is the 80th day of the Nagasaki bombing. Folks successful Fresno came unneurotic astatine the Shinzen Friendship Garden to retrieve the anniversary.
“The Human Rights Coalition of California is commemorating the Nagasaki bombing that happened 80 years agone contiguous connected August 9th, 1945. And it ends a three-day lawsuit that started astatine Fresno State, starting with the commemoration of the Hiroshima bombing arsenic well,” President of the Shinzen Garden Brian Tsukimura said.
According to ICAN, astir 74,000 radical were killed successful the Nagasaki bombing. Those successful attendance said wherefore they had to amusement up.
“It's important to retrieve history. As the saying goes, if we don't retrieve the lessons of history, past we're doomed to repetition them,” attendee David Norris said.
An hour-long program, honoring the lives lost, was held for a assemblage of astir 80 people.
“We're opening with the drums that are perfectly fabulous. So they'll get you conscionable your humor pumping,” Co-Chair of the Human Rights Coalition of the Central Valley Bernadette Vazquez said.
“Folks were treated to unbelievable performances by Hope Garcia singing Imagine,” Tsukimura said.
“We're going to extremity this programme with a meditation accompanied by a harp,” Vazquez added.
The medley of impermanent speakers and performances was good received.
“It was precise good. It was a batch of antithetic perspectives of the mode that we tin larn to beryllium radical of peace,” Norris said.
Tsukimura tells YourCentralValley.com he’s hosted the Nagasaki bombing day successful the past, but this twelvemonth was significant.
“Today we had the largest attendance we've ever had. And possibly due to the fact that it's Saturday, but I deliberation it's the 80th anniversary. And besides there's a batch of uncertainty successful the satellite with a batch of wars that are occurring that could impact the United States,” Tsukimura said.
The anticipation is that, done remembering history, bid volition prevail.
