Nagasaki Commemoration with special guests: Girls’ choir from Nagasaki, Japan
Thursday, August 9, 10:30 a.m. Ceremony to commemorate the dropping of the atomic bomb on Nagasaki. Music by the Junshin Singers, a choir of high school and college women and girls from Nagasaki, Japan. Greetings from Mayor Taue and citizens of Nagasaki. Reading of ON THAT SUMMER DAY. Moment of silence at 11:02 when bomb was dropped. Audience members will be invited to walk the Global Harmony Labyrinth for peace. Co-sponsored by the St. Paul Nagasaki Sister City Committee, the Nagasaki St. Paul Sister City Committee, and the Hiroshima Nagasaki Commemoration Committee.
Location: Global Harmony Labyrinth, Como Park, St. Paul. Corner of Kaufman Drive and Lexington Parkway North.