Honouring the memory
Posted Aug 6, 2010 03:48:03 AM.
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HIROSHIMA, Japan – The U-S, Britain and France have taken part in the annual commemoration of the A-bomb attack on Hiroshima for the first time.
The 65th anniversary ceremony began Friday morning with an offering of water to the 140,000 people who died.
In welcoming U-S ambassador, Hiroshima’s mayor said he hoped this year’s event would boost denuclearization around the world.
This year’s ceremony is Hiroshima’s biggest yet and it echoed with the choirs of schoolchildren and a solemn ringing of bells.
At 8:15 a-m — the time the bomb dropped, incinerating most of the city — a moment of silence was observed.
Along with U.S., British and French officials, and U-N Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, 74 nations were represented at the ceremony.
About 140,000 people were killed or died within months when the American B-29 “Enola Gay” bombed Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945.
Three days later, about 80,000 people died after the United States attacked Nagasaki, and Japan surrendered on August 15h, ending World War Two.
