Aug 9 Tip: Attend Nagasaki Memorial

August 9 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace

Attend Today's Memorial Marking the 67th Anniversary of the Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki

Please join us for this powerful ceremony on Thursday August 9 at noon at Christ Church Cathedral.

Ceremony Marking the

67^th Anniversary of the

Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki

Thursday, August 9, 2012

The Memorial Garden at Christ Church Cathedral

Honoring the victims of the atomic bombings in 1945

and victims of strategic bombing in all wars.

Opening Prayer

Vanessa Hurst, Executive Director

The Merton Institute for Contemplative Living

A Few Words about the Bombing of Nagasaki

Terry Taylor, Executive Director

Interfaith Paths to Peace

Report from an Eyewitness

Lee B. Thomas, Jr.

One of the first U.S. soldiers to visit Hiroshima after the atomic bombing

Reading of Thomas Merton's Poem "Original Child Bomb"

Led by Mitzi Friedlander and Helen Starr Jones

Tolling of the Cathedral Bell

Sponsored by Interfaith Paths to Peace

In cooperation with

The Louisville Chapter of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, 

Drepung Gomang Institute (Louisville's Tibetan Buddhist Community),

Friends (Quaker) Meeting of Louisville, Partnership for a Compassionate Louisville,

The Peace and Justice Division of the Episcopal Diocese of Kentucky, and

St. William and St. Agnes Catholic Churches