BINGHAMTON, N.Y. (WIVT/WBGH) - Local peace activists were joined by visitor from Japan today as they marked the 80th anniversary of the U-S dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

As they have now for decades, members of Broome County Peace Action and Veterans for Peace gathered outside of the First Congregational Church at the corner of Front and main Streets in Binghamton to mark the solemn occasion.

At 8:15 this morning, the time when the nuclear attack occurred, the group rang the historic bell in front of the church. Kenichi Narikawa spent 27 years in the Japan Self-Defense Force. He says he was disturbed by what he saw at the Japanese military base in the African country of Djibouti.

Narikawa said through interpreter Rachel Clark that he realized that he had been brain washed by th

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