The United States dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, destroying the city and killing 140,000 people. It dropped a second bomb three days later (August 9, 1945) on Nagasaki, killing another 70,000. On these 2 dates where thousands were killed in the name of war, we remember and renew our commitment to peace with this prayer:

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