Remembering Hiroshima

Ten years after the day the Atomic Bomb was dropped on the city of Hiroshima, in 1955, a thirteen year old Japanese girl named Sadako Sasaki died of radiation-induced leukemia. She was one of thousands of children in Hiroshima to suffer the radioactive after-effects that have kept killing weeks, months, years, decades, after August 6, 1945. During her illness Sadako folded paper cranes wishing for recovery from the fatal disease. She knew the story which says that cranes live a thousand years and that the person who folds a thousand paper cranes will have their wish granted. Sadako folded 644 paper cranes before she died. Her class-mates folded 356 more cranes so Sadako could be buried with a thousand cranes. A monument was built in the Hiroshima Peace Park to honor the child’s memory and each year on Hiroshima Day children throughout Japan adorn it with thousands of brightly colored paper cranes. The monument to Sadako Sasaki reads:
“This is our cry, this is our prayer, Peace in the world.”

Fold a paper crane for Sadako, www.sadako.com/howtofold.html
fold a paper crane for our children, for peace.