Monks walk atomic flame to Trinity Site

[struggle4progress]

By Laura Hunt, Staff Writer
Jul 27, 2005, 12:57 pm

Buddhist monks carrying a lantern lit by embers of the world’s first atomic bomb, which destroyed Hiroshima on the morning of Aug. 6, 1945, are on their way to the birthplace of atomic weapons — Trinity Site, New Mexico.

The Japanese monks, joined by other peace protesters and supporters, started walking on July 16, the 60th anniversary of the test at Trinity Site. They have already carried the “atomic flame” from San Francisco, through southern California and part of Nevada.

After a 25-day, 1,600-mile walk, the flame will be extinguished at the Trinity Site on Aug. 9, the 60th anniversary of the Nagasaki bombing. The ceremony will take place during a television broadcast calling for world peace and an end to nuclear proliferation, said Matt Taylor, Global Nuclear Disarmament Fund co-executive director. <snip>

http://www.alamogordonews.com/artman/publish/article_8681.shtml

[TroglodyteScholar]

1. That's heavy...

Wouldn't think anyone at the time of the blast would have been...um...sentimental enough about such a thing to keep embers going.

Weird.

[anotherdrew]

3. not sentimental

that flame that hasn't gone out for all these decades caries the karma of the bomb, when they return it to it's origin and extinguish it, it should, subtly at least, signal a major change and end with nuclear warfare. what amazing spirit, I wish them all the best.

[lakeguy]

2. hmm, wonder if i'll see this on the "news"?

[pitohui]

4. that is the ultimate in cool

have visited the trinity site

guide provided who witnessed the explosion

they are getting up there in years

soon the eyewitnesses will be gone

to think the flame is returning

let this be a prayer for peace

[evolvenow]

5. Profound. May their efforts awaken millions. Nuclear needs to END.

[thecrow]

6. It is a truly humbling thing to read this. Wonderful that theycan

Forgive and by extinguishing that flame... forget and end.

A truly beautiful phenomenal act.

:grouphug: PEACE!!!