Hiroshima Event Article in the Haleakala Times!

"Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki" got a great write-up in the Haleakala Times...follow the link here, or see the text of the article below.

http://www.haleakalatimes.com/newsbriefs/story3161.aspx

“Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki,” a community inter-faith peace program, will be held on Wednesday, August 6, at 7 p.m., in the Kahului Hongwanji Buddhist Mission at 291 S. Pu‘unene Ave in Kahului. This 21st annual community program commemorates the 1945 atomic bombing of the two Japanese cities and the suffering it brought to the victims. The churches and community groups sponsoring it intend the program to educate about the importance of nuclear disarmament and the public’s awareness of the on-going threat of nuclear proliferation.

Dr. Seiji Yamada, a physician born in Hiroshima who teaches at the UH John A. Burns School of Medicine and who has treated victims of nuclear testing in the Pacific will speak on “The Nuclear Legacy of the Marshall Islanders.” Dr. Yamada also practices at the Kalihi-Palama Health Center. A spokesperson for Maui Peace Action stated, “Dr. Yamada is a dynamic speaker, and he is dedicated to working toward a just and peaceful society without militarism, imperialism, and racism.”

The public is invited to come early at 6:30 p.m. to learn to make, and later take home, origami peace cranes. There will also be on display for the public to browse, large poster photos showing historical aspects of the atomic bombing which are on display at the internationally-famous Peace Museum located in the Hiroshima Peace Park. The museum and the poster display depict not only the terrible aftermath of the bombing but also the rebirth of Hiroshima and its world leadership in the peace and nuclear disarmament movements up to the present day.

Music, hula, a Japanese tea ceremony by tea ceremony teacher Chieko Nagata, and refreshments will accompany Dr. Yamada’s slide-talk. For more information, call 808-573-3255.

(Complete list of co-sponsors: Kahului Hongwanji Buddhist Mission, Maui Peace Action, Unity Church of Maui, St. John’s Episcopal Church, Iao Congregational Church, Maui Peace Education Foundation and the MCC Peace Club.)