Veterans for Peace Ring Bell in Remembrance of Hiroshima

75 years after the atomic bombs were dropped on Japan during World War 2, a group of local veterans is calling for peace.
Members of Peace Action and Veterans for Peace of Broome County rang the bell at the First Congregational Church in Binghamton in remembrance of the event. This is the 34th year they’ve held the ceremony on the anniversary of the first bomb being dropped on Hiroshima on August 6th 1945. The second nuclear bomb was dropped August 9th on Nagasaki. President of Veterans for Peace Jack Gilroy says it was the most atrocious single act in human history and that they want to raise awareness to the dangers of potential future nuclear attacks.
“There’s a certain sanity in saying this is crazy, it’s absolutely crazy,” says Gilroy. “It’s also a movement to say the power of the American President whoever that happens to be stable or unstable should not have the right to kill other people. Not just kill but kill thousands and even millions.”
Gilroy says the good news is that the United Nations has had 40 countries sign on to abolish nuclear weapons and that only 10 more need to join to make possessing them illegal.