We stood in silence for 5 minutes holding hands.This silence was followed by some thoughts on Hiroshima and Nagasaki being expressed by participants. There was then another 5 minutes of silence in which we held hands. Lanterns were then lit and left to float in the river.

Local resident, Margaret Wright said that, for her the purpose of the vigil was "to keep the tradition going which was started at least 20 years ago by cambridge CND to remember the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945." She wanted to point that the Cambridge commemoration was only one of many such events which were held worldwide yesterday. (see  http://www.indymedia.org/en/2004/08/111584.shtml.) She sees the aim of these vigils as being to "seek peace", and to "seek the abolition of all weapons of mass destruction."