On Saturday, Aug. 6, a remembrance event for Hiroshima, the first city destroyed by an atomic bomb, will be held at the Franco Center in Lewiston, sponsored sponsored by Veterans for Peace, PeaceAction Maine and Physicians for Social Responsibility.

This is especially relevant as the Ukranian War grinds on and Russia threatens the use of nuclear weapons. This is a twofold tragedy encompassing the destruction of a country and its peoples as well as diverting monies from much needed social programs and addressing the climate catastrophe that we are now in.

As President Eisenhower said in 1953, ” Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those that hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms in not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.”

And, that “Under the cloud of war, it is humanity that is hanging from a cross of iron.”

Stephen Sokol, Lewiston


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