Sadako was two years old when she was exposed to the A-bomb. Nine years later she developed leukemia, and believing that folding 1,000 paper cranes would help her recover, she kept folding them to the end, on October 25, 1955, in the Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital. http://www.sadako.org/sadakostory.htm <http://www.sadako.org/sadakostory.htm>
Now there are millions around the world and at American and Japanese memorials to Hiroshima children. A garland hangs in the NIS office.

 

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