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Hiroshima Day Resources

August 6, 2012, will be the 67th anniversary of Hiroshima Day and there are many interfaith and Unitarian Universaslist (UU) resources available for congregations that plan to hold a worship service or other event.

• The Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) is a partner organization of Faithful Security which provides a very useful "Educational Toolkit (PDF)" that includes worship resources for Hiroshima Day.
   
• Shortly after the bombing in Hiroshima, Rev. A. Powell Davies of the All Souls Church, Unitarian in Washington, DC, gave a famous sermon called "Lest We Forget." In it, he encourages the congregation to give supplies to the victims of the bomb. After sending school supplies to the Honkawa school in Hiroshima, the church received 45 hand drawn pictures by the children of the city. These pictures have recently been restored and discussions on how to best preserve the pictures are being held in the church.
   
• “Testimonies of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Women Speak Out for Peace” is a video testament of hibakusha (atomic bomb survivors) who experienced the bombings of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945. A DVD of the testimonies is available for free via People's Decade for Nuclear Abolition.
   
• The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum website has terrific photographs and archives of the annual Peace Declarations through 2011:
  • That fateful summer, 8:15. The roar of a B-29 breaks the morning calm. A parachute opens in the blue sky. Then suddenly, a flash, an enormous blast—silence—hell on Earth... (More)
     
• Be sure to visit the museum's "Kids Peace Station" which includes presentations about Sadako Sasaki and the "Peace Crane" tradition.
  • OrigamiTube has a video showing how to create an origami peace crane
  • Did you know: UU Minister, Reverend Fred Small, was inspired by the story of Sadako Sasaki and wrote the song "Cranes Over Hiroshima" (Lyrics) (Download at Amazon)

For more information contact international @ uua.org.

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Last updated on Friday, September 21, 2012.

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