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19
July 2012
Clackmannanshire Council Provost Tina Murphy has been invited to join the members of Stirling CND next month at their annual commemoration of Hiroshima Day.
It will take place at 7pm on Monday, 6th August, at the Peace Garden, Pullar Memorial Park, Bridge of Allan.
On Hiroshima day worldwide people remember the dropping of the atom bomb on the city on August 6th 1945, when thousands of people were killed.
Provost Murphy said: "It is an opportunity to reflect on the horrors that people can inflict on each other, to commemorate all innocent victims of conflict, and to share our hopes for a more peaceful world.
"It is also a time to renew our awareness that weapons of mass destruction, much more powerful than those dropped on the Japanese cities, are still a deadly reality."
There is a special connection to Central Scotland in that road convoys carrying atomic warheads regularly pass through the district.
Stirling CND, which has members across the Forth valley area, has been in existence since 1982 and holds a Hiroshima commemoration annually.
Clackmannanshire Council, as a members of the global Mayors for Peace network, shares a commitment to a peaceful world.