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Livingston County neighbors gather at Avon’s Circle Park for annual Hiroshima and Nagasaki vigil
['Hunter Wright']
WHEC.com
AVON, N.Y. — People in Livingston County held their annual vigil on Thursday night in remembrance of the lives lost in nuclear fire 81 years ago.
The vigil marked the anniversary of the United States dropping an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, with the city of Nagasaki suffering the same fate just three days later.
“The world is in a really bad spot,” Holly Adams said, who’s with Genesee Valley Citizens for Peace.
“I think all we can do is keep gathering together and pressing as much as we can,” Adams said.
The bomb dropped on Nagasaki killed an estimated 66,000 people, with thousands more dying of complications in the years after.