Posted by finelinebob on September 14, 2006, at 23:19:51
In reply to Re:Cranes » finelinebob, posted by AuntieMel on September 14, 2006, at 8:56:57
I wasn't aware of this until my T told me about it today.
There was a Japanese girl named Sadako who was 2 at the time of the attack on Hiroshima. She eventually developed leukemia like many of the children who were exposed to the radiation of the attack and survived that day. There is a legend that if you fold 1000 paper cranes you will be granted a wish. When Sadako was told of this, she started folding hoping to be healed, wishing that no children would have to suffer from war as she had. She died with something like 600 cranes folded. Her classmates took up her task, tho, and finished folding the cranes for her.
There are several books out there about this,including "One Thousand Paper Cranes: The Story of Sadako and the Children's Peace Statue ".
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