Balloons for peace

Balloons for peace

OTSU, Japan - Worshippers release about 3,000 balloons into sky during an event to pray for peace and to console the victims of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at Mii Temple in Otsu, Shiga Prefecture, on Aug. 6, 2010. Hiroshima marked the 65th anniversary of the bombing that day.

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