SAN FRANCISCO - Eighty years after the world witnessed the first atomic bombs dropped in Japan, survivors of the bombing gathered at a ceremony in San Francisco 's Golden Gate Park Japanese Tea Garden to commemorate the survivors and to call for peace.

Survivors of the atomic bomb

Jack Dairiki and Seiko Fujimoto, both "hibakusha" or survivors of the atomic bombing in Hiroshima, were honored at a Blessing Service for Peace.

Golden Gate Park has a connection to the Hiroshima bombings. Near the pagoda, city officials noted that the Japanese Tea Garden has two ginkgo tree saplings, taken from two trees that survived the bombing in Hiroshima. Guests were given seeds after the ceremony to plant, as a symbol that anyone can nurture the seeds of peace.

Dairiki and Fujimoto are both San Fra

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