Peace Declarations - Hiroshima & Nagasaki ceremonies

---surely is one more element in learning the languge & society of Japan.
 
=-=-= Hiroshima Peace Declaration
6 August 1945, the fist atomic bombs dropped in Hiroshima, Japan. 65years later, today the Mayer of Hiroshima declared the Peace Declarationat the Peace Ceremony. Here is the full text of Declaration, and you canget PDF at http://www.city.hiroshima.lg.jp/www/contents/0000000000000/1110537278566/index.html 

The direct link to the pdf in English is http://www.city.hiroshima.lg.jp/www/contents/0000000000000/1110537278566/files/Peace_Declaration_2010.pdf
  [excerpt]
PEACE DECLARATION August 6, 2010
In the company of hibakusha who, on this day 65 years ago, were hurled,without understanding why, into a beyond ...
 
=-=-= Nagasaki Peace Declaration from August 9, 2010, delievered by Mayor Taue Tomihisa.
http://www1.city.nagasaki.nagasaki.jp/peace/english/appeal/ 
 
  [excerpt]
This year Nagasaki's peace ceremony has commenced with a song by hibakusha,survivors of the atomic bombing. The song was full of the strong hope that that fateful day must never berepeated. On August 9, 1945 at 11:02 a.m., a single atomic bomb dropped by a UnitedStates military aircraft devastated Nagasaki instantly. The intense heatrays, blast winds, radiation, and ceaseless fires.... They claimed theprecious lives of 74,000 people, while inflicting deep physical and mentalwounds on those who narrowly escaped death...