Hiroshima Nagasaki Commemoration
Sun August 12
6:00 pm – Fulbright Peace Fountain on campus
Between Old Main and Vol Walker Hall
Annual commemoration of those who died in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and all who suffer and die as a result of war. Join us for the solemn occasion.
Back from the Brink: The Hiroshima Nagasaki Experience Compels Us
Welcome and memorial statement for Bill Williams
Mayor’s Proclamation – Mayor Lioneld Jordan
Opening story – “Feathers and Fools” – Kelly & Donna
Daniel Ellsberg book “The Doomsday Machine” – Abel Tomlinson
Remembrance in Poetry – “If Just One…“ – Joe Neal
“War, it never works” – Speaker – Sr. Rosalie Rueswald, Fort Smith
Music – “Liberty” — Walter Schmidt
Obon Lights Ceremony in honor of the dead
Reading of Names of the Dead – Karen Takemoto, Abel Tomlinson
Keynote Speaker – “Remembering the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atrocities: Seventy Three years On” — – Dr. Jeremy Kuzmarov
Closing music – Kelly & Donna, May Peace Prevail on Earth chant