Area Peace Activists Remember Hiroshima, Nagasaki Bombings

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BANGOR - At the signal of a ringing bell, 18 people spread themselves like corpses on the brick and concrete Friday in front of the Margaret Chase Smith Federal Building, symbolizing the Japanese civilians who died during the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan in August 1945, which killed more than 170,000 people at the end of World War II.

Signs claiming "No More Hiroshimas" and "$ For Healthcare, not nukes," lay at their sides during a three-minute silent vigil for the first and only atomic bomb attacks. The Peace and Justice Center of Eastern Maine and the Bangor chapter of Veterans for Peace sponsored the ceremony.

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Area Peace Activists Remember Hiroshima, Nagasaki Bombings

"Don't forget Pearl Harbor," someone shouted out of his car window driving by the building. The participants of th...

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