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In memory of Sadako Sasaki, keeping her dream of world peace alive.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2rIm_Td2Mk
Sadako Sasaki was a 2 years old Japanese little girl when the atomic bomb was dropped in 1945, near her home in Hiroshima. In 1955 at the age of 11, she was diagnosed with leukemia (caused by radiation exposure) and given, at the most, a year to live.
According to the most popular version of her story, she attempted to fold a thousand origami cranes before her death asking for peace around the world. Unfortunately, she fell short of her goal, having folded only 644 before her death. Thereby, her friends stood up for her to complete the 1 000, that's what my picture is about.
From that time, she became a symbol of innocent victims of war.
In memory of Sadako Sasaki, keeping her dream of world peace alive.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2rIm_Td2Mk
Sadako Sasaki was a 2 years old Japanese little girl when the atomic bomb was dropped in 1945, near her home in Hiroshima. In 1955 at the age of 11, she was diagnosed with leukemia (caused by radiation exposure) and given, at the most, a year to live.
According to the most popular version of her story, she attempted to fold a thousand origami cranes before her death asking for peace around the world. Unfortunately, she fell short of her goal, having folded only 644 before her death. Thereby, her friends stood up for her to complete the 1 000, that's what my picture is about.
From that time, she became a symbol of innocent victims of war.