On 6th August, Crewe & Nantwich Quakers commemorated the eightieth anniversary of the destruction of Hiroshima by meeting at the River Weaver in Nantwich. We shared readings and silence and threw white flowers into the river, a poignant symbol of the dreadful destruction of the 300,000 lives lost in that act of war.
Hearing of the devastation of the bombing of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki had had a profound effect on Howard, a former member of the meeting who died two months ago. He had, each year, encouraged the meeting to mark this anniversary, and he - and his late wife, Hilda, were present in our thoughts and our conversations as we reflected on the continued threat of the world's growing number of nuclear weapons.
