Hundreds gathered near Green Lake Park in Seattle on Thursday night to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, and to remember its victims.
From Hiroshima to Hope attendees decorated lanterns with Japanese phrases such as “health,” “energy” and “sorrow,” to set afloat in the lake with candles inside.
Pictures of death and destruction in the aftermath of “Fat Man,” the bomb dropped by the U.S. on the city of Nagasaki, were set up on the lakeside path.
That bomb killed 70,000 people and prompted Japan to surrender in World War II.